PENGUIN CLASSICS : THE CANTERBURY TALES PB B FORMAT

Nevill Coghill s easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature – now 600 years old – will run through yet more centuries Melvyn Bragg In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within 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. This masterly and vivid modern English verse translation retains all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer s fourteenth-century Middle English. Translated by NEVILL COGHILL