Geoffrey Chaucer

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost.....

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder....

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and unabridged....

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more....

If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so....

The Tales gathers 29 of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

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 Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the 14th century, is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums....

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary canon....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

In this first version of Chaucer's classic to be presented in modern English by John Tatlock and Percy Mackay, the tales told by a Miller, a Knight, a Frira, a Nun and many more are often bawdy, bloody and full of religious zeal....

Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks....

Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic...