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  • The Canterbury Tales

  • A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel
  • Written by: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Narrated by: uncredited
  • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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Written by: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. 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, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This unabridged work is based on the new translation.
©2008 Burton Raffel. All rights reserved. (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America
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interesting but book, excellently read

The readers are excellent. The stories are diverse and interesting - several quite bawdy, several quite pious. There's a lot about religion herein, which I don't mind in principle, but the last "tale" is not a tale at all but a long sermon on sins and penance. I would never say I loved the book because there weren't any characters I really loved or could enjoy following. The work is also hampered by being so incomplete, with many stories never written, a few begun but never finished, and no wrap up to the story that frames the individual tales.

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