Binding: Hardcover
Description: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award - winning Coralie Bickford - Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high - quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature a masterly collection of chivalric romances moral allegories and low farce. A story - telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
Title: The Canterbury Tales
Author(s): Chaucer Geoffrey
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141393216
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/29/2015
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets