The Canterbury Tales

Author(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Coghill, Nevill
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 26/09/2013,
Pagination: 528 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780141393216,
Description:

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.