Geoffrey Chaucer

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...

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....

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1340, was the first great English poet. The immense popularity of the "Canterbury Tales" is shown by the number of...

Read in a mixture of Middle-English and modern English, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century....

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

In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums....

The best known of Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales, read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft....

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

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

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