One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English
literature, The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition
between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society.
The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves,
encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and
the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic
stories combining sex and trickery; in "The Shipman's Tale," a wife
sells her favors to a monk. Others draw on courtly romance and
fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the
same woman, and the Squire describes a princess who can speak to
birds. In these twenty-four tales, Chaucer displays a dazzling
range of literary styles and conjures up a wonderfully vivid
picture of medieval life.Freshly established Middle English text
with standardized spelling and punctuation and on-page
glossingFeatures an introduction, a chronology of Chaucer's life
and works, detailed explanatory notes, suggestions for further
reading, a full glossary, and a bibliographyCompanion to the
Penguin Classics original-spelling edition of Troilus and
Criseyde
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