Audiobook.I was happy finally to read the complete set of stories rather than excerpted tales. It was entertaining to read "The Pardoner's Tale" again after having read "The Tale of the Tree Brothers" in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I'd never have read the long, dry religious sections had I not b...
I suppose this is my own Ulysses. Canterbury Tales is certainly one of those books, like Ulysses or Proust or Golden Bowl, that no one's actually read or if they have they hated it or if they didn't they're lying because they think it'll impress you. But I took a whole class on this in college and...
A fun new edition of one of my favorite books. Reading this translation (retelling) I kept feeling I was reading about people I already knew--the pilgrims sound and act like people you might meet on the street.
Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blogThe original short story collection. Read translated into modern English in high school, in Middle English in college. Loved it both times. The stories are at turns beautiful, ribald, tragic and funny. In high school, our teacher assigned us a project to either memorize t...
What's not to love about the iambic pentameter that these wonderful tales are told? I also like the old English of the first few lines, they are so fun to read aloud: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote/The droghte of March hath perced to the roote." However, the best part of these tales is t...
One of the questions that people ask is why do we still read old books? What's so great about them anyway? My brother asked me this after I was shocked that he hadn't read Canterbury Tales. I undoubtably get the same shocked expression when I hear someone hasn't read over a dozen other things. S...
A classic that has worn well... the psychology, in particular with regard to women, seems remarkably modern! It's funny, and not just in one style either. Sometimes he's subverting the popular cliches of the day, sometimes he's slyly campaigning for women's rights, and sometimes he's just having fun...
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