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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) Book

In 'The Canterbury Tales', Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This version of the text has been translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill.Read More

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  • Foyles

    'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. This masterly and vivid modern English verse translation retains all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.Translated by NEVILL COGHILL

  • Play

    In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature a masterly collection of chivalric romances moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.

  • Penguin

    'Now as I've drunk a draught of corn-ripe ale, By God it stands to reason I can strike On some good story that you will all like' In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce.

  • ASDA

    In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature a masterly collection of chivalric romances moral allegories and low farce. This version of the text has been translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill.

  • Waterstones

    In ''The Canterbury Tales'', Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This version of the text has been translated into modern English by Nevill Cog

  • BookDepository

    The Canterbury Tales : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140424386 : 0140424385 : 04 Feb 2003 : Offers us a glimpse into the life and mind of Medieval England. This is a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce.

  • Blackwell

    With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crew of pilgrims drawn from all walks of...

  • Pickabook

    Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Trans)

  • 0140424385
  • 9780140424386
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 30 January 2003
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 528
  • Rev Ed
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