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The Canterbury Tales (Collins Classics)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Canterbury Tales (Collins Classics)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Geoffrey Chaucer
SeriesCollins Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:624
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780007449446
ClassificationsDewey:821.1
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint William Collins
NZ Release Date 13 March 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.' Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to travel to a shrine in Canterbury and become the narrators, telling each other stories of chivalrous romance, fable, parable, debate and comedy as they journey. Their accounts of the human condition remain as resonant today as when they were first written.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) is often considered the the father of English literature and the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He wrote The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde, but his most famous work remains The Canterbury Tales. He was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.