The Canterbury tales

Author(s)

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400
• Coghill, Nevill

Bibliographic Information

The Canterbury tales

Geoffrey Chaucer ; translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1977

Note

"This translations first published 1951" -- T.p. verso

"Revised 1958 ... Reprinted with revisions 1977" -- T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight, the Wife of Bath and the Miller.

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Details

• NCID: BA12604939
• ISBN:
  • 0140440224
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: enm
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 526 p
• Size: 18 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England -- Canterbury -- Poetry
  • LCSH : English poetry
  • LCSH : English literature
  • LCSH : Middle Ages -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646