The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Nevill Coghill (Translator)

• New

  Hardcover
  2013

  $18.16

  Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 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.