Dover Publications

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

In stock
No reviews
2.250 KD inc. VAT
License
Table of contents
  • Cover1
  • Title Page2
  • Copyright Page3
  • Note4
  • Apologia5
  • Table of Contents6
  • Group A7
  • The Prologue7
  • The Knight’s Tale14
  • The Miller’s Prologue32
  • The Miller’s Tale33
  • The Reeve’s Prologue39
  • The Reeve’s Tale40
  • The Cook’s Prologue44
  • The Cook’s Tale45
  • Group B46
  • Introduction to the Lawyer’s Prologue46
  • The Lawyer’s Prologue47
  • The Lawyer’s Tale48
  • The Sailor’s Prologue57
  • The Sailor’s Tale58
  • The Prioress’s Prologue62
  • The Prioress’s Invocation63
  • The Prioress’s Tale64
  • Prologue to Sir Thopas66
  • Sir Thopas67
  • Prologue to Melibeus68
  • The Tale of Melibeus69
  • The Monk’s Prologue83
  • The Monk’s Tale84
  • Lucifer84
  • Adam84
  • Samson84
  • Hercules84
  • Nebuchadnezzar85
  • Belshazzar85
  • Zenobia86
  • Pedro, King of Spain86
  • Peter, King of Cyprus87
  • Bernabo of Lombardy87
  • Ugolino, Count of Pisa87
  • Nero87
  • Holofernes88
  • Antiochus Epiphanes88
  • Alexander88
  • Julius Caesar89
  • Croesus89
  • The Prologue to the Nun’s Priest’s Tale91
  • The Nun’s Priest’s Tale92
  • Epilogue to the Nun’s Priest’s Tale97
  • Group C98
  • The Physician’s Tale98
  • The Words of the Host101
  • The Prologue of the Pardoner’s Tale102
  • The Pardoner’s Tale103
  • Group D108
  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue108
  • Behold the Words Between the Summoner and the Friar115
  • The Tale of the Wife of Bath116
  • The Friar’s Prologue120
  • The Friar’s Tale121
  • The Summoner’s Prologue124
  • The Summoner’s Tale125
  • Group E130
  • The Clerk’s Prologue130
  • The Clerk’s Tale131
  • Envoy of Chaucer140
  • The Merchant’s Prologue141
  • The Merchant’s Tale142
  • Group F152
  • The Squire’s Prologue152
  • The Squire’s Tale153
  • The Words of the Franklin159
  • The Franklin’s Prologue160
  • The Franklin’s Tale161
  • Group G169
  • The Second Nun’s Prologue169
  • The Second Nun’s Tale170
  • The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue174
  • The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale175
  • Group H182
  • The Manciple’s Prologue182
  • The Manciple’s Tale of the Crow183
  • Group I186
  • The Parson’s Prologue186
  • The Parson’s Tale187
  • Wherein Chaucer Takes Leave of His Book212
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486161969
  • ISBN-13 9780486161969
  • Author Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Classics

Do you have questions about this book?

Ask an expert!

Description eBook delivery & access Reviews
A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling. The travelers ― noble, coarse, jolly, and pious ― offer a vibrant portrait of fourteenth-century English life. Their narratives form English literature's greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories. The Canterbury Tales reflects a society in transition, as a middle class began to emerge from England's feudal system. Craftsmen and laborers ride side by side with the gentry on the road to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket, and their discussions and arguments about ethical issues mirror their changing world. The pilgrims' conversations and stories also reveal their individual personalities, and Chaucer's vivid, realistic characterizations assured the Tales an instant and enduring success. Each pilgrim's story can be read separately and appreciated in its own right; all appear here in a lucid translation into modern English verse by J. U. Nicolson.