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The Canterbury tales, Geoffrey Chaucer ; a retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock

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The Canterbury tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer ; a retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, "The Canterbury Tales" concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition

The general prologue -- 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 -- Chaucer's retractions

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