The Canterbury Tales

Name: The Canterbury Tales
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN: 9789629546465

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrator: Philip Madoc, Edward de Souza, Anthony Donovan, Clive Merrison, Clive Swift, and Anton Lesser

Abridged: 3 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 11/01/2004

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Medieval Poetry

Synopsis

Chaucer’s greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of The Knight’s Tale to the joyous bawdy of the Miller’s; all are told with a freshness and vigour in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), English poet, was the son of a London vintner. He was married and held a number of positions at court and in the king’s service, including diplomat, controller of customs in the port of London, and deputy forester in the King’s Forest in Somerset. He was buried in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey where a monument was erected to him in 1555.

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