The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- Authors
- Ackroyd, Peter & Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- literary criticism , fiction , prose_contemporary , poetry , general , english; irish; scottish; welsh , canterbury (england) , christian pilgrims and pilgrimages , european , chaucer; geoffrey , classics
- ISBN
- 9780143106173
- Date
- 2009-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.72 MB
- Lang
- en
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Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original.
A mirror for medieval society, 'The Canterbury Tales' concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters - as well as explicitly rendering their bawdy humor - yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer's verse.