ADAPTED BY NEVILL COGHILL FROM GEOFFREY CHAUCERS CANTERBURY TALES. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. A 20pp programme from the Phoenix Theatre. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 4 2003 by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Nevill Coghill (Editor, Introduction, Translator) 2,177 ratings Kindle Edition 0.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 28.05 1 New from 28.05 Paperback 14.00 46 Used from 5.47 17 New from 13.

Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The publication of his famous translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

A story-telling 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. The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and. Nevill Coghill was professor of English literature at Oxford from 1957 to 1966. 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. Visit for more literature book audio reviews This is an audio summary of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English

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