by Geoffrey Chaucer · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440225
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«The Canterbury Tales» is Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval poem collection, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (528 pages, in English).
A group of pilgrims of very different backgrounds sets out from an inn in Southwark towards Canterbury and, to enliven the journey, each tells a story. Between the pious and the obscene, the tragic and the comic, the whole portrays English society of the fourteenth century.
Chaucer began the work in 1386 and did not complete it; it survives in several manuscripts whose order is not fixed. The translation into modern English verse is by Nevill Coghill.
Suitable for lovers of classical literature, students of English literature, and readers interested in the Middle Ages.
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
