The Canterbury tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer ; translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill
Contributors: Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780140440225
Subjects: Poetry; England; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Middle Ages; Fiction
Description: A collection of twenty-four stories, all but two of which are in verse, related by members of a company of thirty-one pilgrims who are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury in medievel times.
Table of contents: title: The knight's tale; title: The miller's tale; title: The man of law's tale; title: The clerk's tale; title: The second nun's tale; title: The friar's tale; title: The nun's priest's tale; title: The reeve's tale; title: The franklin's tale; title: The wife of Bath's tale; title: The monk's tale; title: The pardoner's tale; title: The prioress's tale; title: Chaucer's tale of Melibee.