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  • Published: 7 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140422344
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1328
  • RRP: $60.00

The Canterbury Tales




Completely new edition of the most popular and widely-studied work of the English middle ages

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.

  • Published: 7 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140422344
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 1328
  • RRP: $60.00

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