Author/Contributor(s): | Chaucer, Geoffrey; Wright, David |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Date: | 07/12/2011 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
The Canterbury Tales has entertained readers for centuries, with its comic animal fables, moral allegories, miniature epics of courtly love, and rollicking erotic farces that bring fourteenth-century England to life on every page. The gloriously varied stories, narrated by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, are peopled with saints, sinners, and ordinary mortals in a vivid panorama of the medieval world. This prose translation renders these tales as accessible and irresistible to modern readers as they were to Chaucer’s contemporaries.