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, 1960

rev. ed

Note

This translations first published: 1951

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: BA19049960
• ISBN:
  • 0140440224
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: enm
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 525 p.
• Size: 18 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646