Geoffrey Chaucer

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At the Tabard Inn, 30 travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best...

The Tales gathers 29 of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society....

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost.....

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary canon....

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder....

If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so....

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time....

The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the 14th century, is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages....

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...

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society....

Three tales from The Canterbury Tales, read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

Cecil Trouncer and J. B. Bessinger Jr. read a selection of Chaucer's work, including 'To Rosamond', 'The Pardoner's Tale', and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'.....

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and unabridged....

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Thought to have been born in London, England c. 1342/43, Geoffrey Chaucer is considered "the first finder of our language" even before the time of Shakespeare. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in the English language....