Selected Canterbury Tales

Description

So begins one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature, a collection of stories as much prized for the portraits of its story tellers as for the stories they tell — portraits that reveal much of the rich social fabric of 14th-century England.

Now three of the most popular tales — along with the charming General Prologue have been selected for this edition: The Knight’s Tale, The Miller’s Prologue and Tale, and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.

Animated by Chaucer’s sly humour, flair for characterization and wise humanity, the stories have been recast into modern verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals.

Highly entertaining, they represent an excellent entree to the rest of The Canterbury Tales and to the pleasures of medieval poetry in general. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Reprint of select tales from Canterbury Tales: Rendered into Modem English by J. U. Nicolson, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1934.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His greatest work stands as The Canterbury Tales.