The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by J. U. Nicolson
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by J. U. Nicolson
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The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer; Translated by J. U. Nicolson

Narrator: a full cast

Unabridged: 20 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Chaucers finest work begins at the Tabard Inn, where thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Beckets shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time during their long journey, and that the host of the inn will reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their return. Thus we hear, translated into modern English, the knights tale, the merchants tale, the millers tale, the wife of Baths tale, twentysome tales in all. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much of their individual outlooks upon life as well as what life was like in latefourteenthcentury England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on January 27, 2024

welcome to...THE JANTERUARY TALES. get it? like the canterbury tales? only january? anyway. this is an installment of PROJECT LONG CLASSICS, by which i make intimidating books less scary by reading them over the course of a month and bothering all of you. it's been a while since i read an old-timey-lang......more

Goodreads review by MJ on October 09, 2023

When confronted with the painful choice of whether or not to read Chaucer in the original Middle English, I agonised for precisely four seconds and decided to read Nevill Coghill’s modern translation in lovely Penguin paperback. In the same way I wouldn’t learn German to read Goethe, or unlearn Engl......more

Goodreads review by James on August 15, 2017

Book Review It was 1996 and my freshmen year at college. I had already declared English as my major and needed to choose between Chaucer and Shakespeare as the primary "classic" author to take a course on. I chose Shakespeare. My advisor told me that's the usual pick and most missed out.......more

Goodreads review by Manny on January 31, 2023

A classic that has worn well... the psychology, in particular with regard to women, seems remarkably modern! It's funny, and not just in one style either. Sometimes he's subverting the popular cliches of the day, sometimes he's slyly campaigning for women's rights, and sometimes he's just having fun......more

Goodreads review by Jon on December 16, 2021

Another - 'I am so glad to get this off my book bucket list' - book that was very hard for me to understand. The stories were often grounded in concepts that I think modern readers may have problems understanding, but I still recognize that this book is one of the great literary works of all time. I......more