

The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer; Translated by J. U. Nicolson
Narrator: a full cast
Unabridged: 20 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/27/2008
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer; Translated by J. U. Nicolson
Narrator: a full cast
Unabridged: 20 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/27/2008
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
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
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
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
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