Making a major part of Englands literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyds The Canterbury Tales A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucers timeless tales in lucid, compelling modern English prose, with illustrations by Nick Bantock in Penguin Classics.On a pilgrimage to Canterbury, a group of travellers agree to a storytelling competition. As they make their way on the road, they drink, laugh, flirt, argue and try to outdo each other with their tales. From the exuberant Wife of Baths Arthurian legend to the Millers worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenthcentury London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly romance the tales encompass a blend of universal human themes, retold here for our times by bestselling author Peter Ackroyd.The edition also includes an introduction by Ackroyd, detailing some of the historical background to Chaucer and the Tales, and why he has been inspired to translate them for a new generation of readers.Geoffrey Chaucer (c.13431400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, courtier and diplomat, best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is credited as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language. The first poet to have been buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey, his other works include The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of the Duchess.Peter...

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FC; Weight: 438 g; Dimensions: 197 x 136 x 20

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