One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new
clothbound edition
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones
of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances,
moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a
group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of
tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the
ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of
the Miller and the Cook. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern
English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain
all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.