This book offers a massive selection from The Cansterbury Tales together with a facing-pae uanslation desiened as both a help to the beginner and as an independently readahise entity……

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucere'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 gather twenty-nine 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, A graceful modern translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader to enjoy the fast pace of these selections from THE CANTERBURY TALES with the poetry of the Middle English original always at first hand.

Introduction

THE PROLOGUE

THE KNIGHT'S TALE

THE MILLER

THE WIFE OF BATH

THE MEKCHANT

THE FRANKLIN'S TALE

THE PARDONER

THE PRIORESS

THE NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE

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