The Canterbury tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other authorsNevill Coghill
Paperback, 2003

Collection

Status

Available

Description

Classic Literature. Fiction. Poetry. HTML: Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is such a rollicking good read that you'll forget many critics and scholars also regard it as one of the most important literary works in English. A group of pilgrims are traveling together to visit a holy shrine at the Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way, they decide to hold a storytelling contest to pass the time, with the winner to be awarded a lavish feast on the return trip. The tales offered up in turn by each of the travelers run the full gamut of human emotion, ranging from raucous and ribald jokes to heartrending tales of doomed romance. Even if you don't consider yourself a fan of classic literature, The Canterbury Tales is worth a read..… (more)

Publication

London Penguin Books 2003.

ISBN

0140424385 / 9780140424386

Pages

xvii; 504

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1380–1399
14th century AD (source material)
1394 (Original manuscripts completed & circulated)
1478 (Earliest printed edition issued in London ∙ UK ∙ by William Caxton)
1484 (Reprinted by William Caxton)
1498 (Second Edition by Wynkyn de Worde ∙ Caxton's successor)
1526 (First Edition of Collected Works in Three Volumes ∙ published by Richard Pynson ∙ de Worde's successor)
1532, 1561, 1598 (other editions of Collected Worksm following the first one)
1894 ( the Oxford Chaucer [standard authoritative edition] edited by Walter w. Skeat)
1934 (translated by Frank Ernest Hill into modern English verse)
1946 (revised by translator Hill and issued with illustrations by Arthur Szyk)
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