Geoffrey Chaucer

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...

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....

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....

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....

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....

Three tales from The Canterbury Tales, read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer....

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

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary canon....

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...

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

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....

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

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....

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....

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society....

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....

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