The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

✍ Scribed by Chaucer, Geoffrey;Ackroyd, Peter;Bantock, Nick

• Book ID: 100558415
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Viking
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 705 KB
• Edition: 1st American ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: Canterbury (England), New York, N.Y., England--Canterbury.
• ISBN: 110115523X

✦ Synopsis

The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The merchant's prologue, tale, and epilogue -- The squire's prologue and tale -- The franklin's prologue and tale -- The physician's tale -- The pardoner's prologue and tale -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's prologue and tale -- Prologue and tale of Sir Thopas -- The monk's prologue and tale -- The nun's priest's prologue, tale and epilogue -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The canon's yeoman's prologue and tale -- The manciple's prologue and tale -- The parson's prologue.;Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Classics