The Canterbury Tales

'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn BraggIn The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within 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. This masterly and vivid modern English verse translation retains all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.

Translated by NEVILL COGHILL

,,Traducerea usoara si seducatoare a lui Nevill Coghill asigura ca aceasta, cea mai populara opera din literatura engleza - acum 600 de ani - va dura inca mai multe secole" Melvyn BraggIn Povestile Canterbury Chaucer a creat una dintre marile pietre de incercare ale literaturii engleze. O competitie de povestiri in cadrul unui grup de pelerini din toate categoriile sociale este prilejul unei serii de povesti care variaza de la relatarea Cavalerului despre dragostea curteneasca si legenda arthuriana a sotiei lui Bath, pana la anecdotele obscure ale Moarului si Bucatarului.