The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
A Retelling

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter Ackroyd

Narrator: John Curless, Davina Porter, Toby Leonard Moore, Steven Crossley, Ron Keith, Graeme Malcolm, Colin McPhillamy, John Keating, Bianca Amato, Tim Gerard Reynolds

Unabridged: 16 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/30/2011

Synopsis

Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.

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

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