Geoffrey Chaucer

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more....

Read in a mixture of Middle-English and modern English, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century....

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost.....

The best known of Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales, read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft....

The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the 14th century, is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages....

If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

THE PARDONER’S TALE AND THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE FROM CHAUCER’S CANTEBURY TALES....

Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic...

In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums....

Den engelske middelalder-litteraturs udødelige mesterværk i moderne dansk genfortælling ved Mogens Boisen...

Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross....

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....