The Geoffrey Chaucer ; A retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca. 1340-1400) creator Ackroyd, Peter 1949- Bantock, Nick 1949- ilustrador text nyu New York Penguin Books 2010 monographic eng

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xxii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 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 The general prologue The knight's tale The miller's prologue and tale The reeve's prologue and tale The cook's prologue and tale The man of law's prologue, tale and epilogue The wife of Bath's prologue and tale The friar's prologue and tale The summoner's prologue and tale The clerk's prologue and tale The merchant's prologue, tale and epilogue The squire's prologue and tale The franklin's prologue and tale The physician's tale The pardoner's prologue and tale The shipman's tale The prioress's prologue and tale Prologue and tale of Sir Thopas The monk's prologue and tale The nun's priest's prologue, tale and epilogue The second nun's prologue and tale The canon's yeoman's prologue and tale The Manciple's prologue and tale The parson's prologue Chaucer's retractions Originally published: New York : Viking, 2009 Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Poetry Cuentos ingleses Literatura inglesa PR 1872 C496c 2010 821/.1 9780143106173 0143106171 65011254 DLC 810915 20230411090902.0 7055796 eng