De verhalen van Canterbury is het middeleeuwse magnum opus van Geoffrey Chaucer. Het werk neemt in de Engelse literaire canon een centrale plek in. De verzameling verhalen is samengebundeld rondom een pelgrimstocht naar Canterbury, een gouden greep, want zo kan Chaucer de sociale diversiteit en dynamiek van de middeleeuwen voor het voetlicht brengen.  Meer

Offers us a glimpse into the life and mind of Medieval England. This is a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce.  Meer

Few students read the whole of "The Canterbury Tales, but "Fragment I", which contains the general prologue, "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Tale", "The Reeve's Tale" and "The Cook's Tale", raises many of the topics that arise from studying the tales as a whole.  Meer

Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem of Chaucer relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede.  Meer

Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love.  Meer

A selection of the "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" that provides an introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. It offers character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on their way to Canterbury.  Meer

Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem relates how Troilus persuades Crisyede to become his lover, only to be forced apart by the events of war.  Meer

Offers a collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This book includes 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.  Meer

About Sheila Fisher’s translation.  Meer

Colophon Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Print adaptation: William Caxton, Thomas Godfray Editors: William Thynne, Frederick Startridge Ellis, Rev. Walter William Skeat Design: William Morris Illustrations: Edward Burne-Jones Engraving: William Harcourt Hooper Cover design: Francis Sangorski Desktop publishing: Lars Remer Printing: Pumbo BV The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer published by the Kelmscott Press is what the celebrated poet William Butler Yeats calls the most beautiful of all printed books with the richest and most detailed illustrations ever drawn and with the longest history of any book ever written and published in English.  Meer

This edition contains a wealth of material and over 3,000 notes which will help all students of Chaucer's masterpiece.  Meer

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.   Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page.  Meer

This daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical.  Meer