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A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the knights account of courtly love and the ebullient wife of baths arthurian legend, to the ribald. 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. Listen to troilus and criseyde audiobook by geoffrey chaucer, nevill coghill translator, narrated by charlton griffin. In the canterbury tales chaucer created one of the great touchstones of english literature, a masterly. Read in middle english by nevill coghill, norman davis, and john burrow. Nevill coghills masterly and vivid modern english verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of chaucers fourteenthcentury middle english a penguin classic 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. The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from southwark to canterbury to visit the shrine of.
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