EAN: 9780199599028

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'Whoever best acquits himself and tells The most amusing and instructive tale Shall have a dinner paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387) a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are as various as the tellers including romance bawdy comedy beast fable learned debate parable and Eastern adventure. The resulting collection gives us a set of characters so vivid that they have often been taken as portraits from real life and a series of stories as hilarious in their comedy as they are affecting in their tragedy. Even after 600 years their account of the human condition seems both fresh and true. This new edition of David Wright's acclaimed translation includes a new crit

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