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The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback)
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The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback)
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Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a
new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling
modern English prose, with illustrations by Nick Bantock in Penguin
Classics. On a pilgrimage to Canterbury, a group of travellers
agree to a storytelling competition. As they make their way on the
road, they drink, laugh, flirt, argue and try to outdo each other
with their tales. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian
legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be
taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every
style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and
courtly romance - the tales encompass a blend of universal human
themes, retold here for our times by bestselling author Peter
Ackroyd. The edition also includes an introduction by Ackroyd,
detailing some of the historical background to Chaucer and the
Tales, and why he has been inspired to translate them for a new
generation of readers. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) was an
English author, poet, philosopher, courtier and diplomat, best
known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is credited as
being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of
the vernacular English language. The first poet to have been buried
in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, his other works include
The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of the
Duchess. Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) is an award-winning writer and
historian. Formerly literary editor of The Spectator and chief book
reviewer for the The Times, he is the author of novels such as
Hawksmoor (1985) and The House of Doctor Dee (1993), as well as
non-fiction including Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
(2002), London: The Biography (2000), and Thames: Sacred River
(2007). 'Ackroyd's retelling is compulsive, bold and rare ... as
fresh as new paint' Observer 'The only version to read' Time Out
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