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The Canterbury Tales
- A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel
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- Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
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- Jensophie
- 02-24-10
Lack of coherant "chapters"
This is a wonderful reading of Chaucer's tales. The different narrators really bring each of the stories to life. I have read this book (or sections) numerous times and I have to say that this translation was by far the most easy to understand and the most engaging. I really recommend this version of Chaucer's tales. The only problem I had with it has been mentioned by others (Audible, take note) the chapters are not designated by book, but by presumably Audible's convenience, that means, you cannot skip around to different tales, you have to listen to it front to back. This was irritating, and is the only reason I give it less than 5 stars.
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- Tad Davis
- 11-16-08
A wonderful treat!
Burton Raffel is the crown prince of Old and Middle English translators in my book, and his Chaucer is another masterpiece. The rhyming is more subtle than in other translations of Chaucer, but it's there; and the tales unfold with seemingly effortless clarity. This is a high-quality, multiple-reader production, and it includes all the tales (including the Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale). The only thing marring the production are the chapter breaks: they are geared to the CDs rather than the individual tales. If you're planning to listen straight through, that's not a problem, but I would have preferred the ability to be more selective.
It's amazing that in only a few months, Audible has gone from a skimpy selection of Chaucer to three outstanding recordings of the complete set of Tales: one from Charlton Griffin, one from Blackstone, and this one from the BBC. Any one of them provides a wonderful listening experience. This one is my favorite because of Raffel; others may suit your taste better. But for heaven's sake get ONE of them.
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 01-31-11
Enjoyable, Mostly!
Listening to the Canterbury Tales as an audio book is probably the best way to fully appreciate them, as they were certainly conceived to be listened to and not read silently for oneself. The narrators are varied and talented; they certainly succeed in bringing out the most from each tale. Also, the excellent translation makes the work perfectly accessible and easy to understand.
This unabridged version makes one realize however that this work was never finished or has been incompletely transmitted to us. For instance, the first tales such as the miller's and the reeve's are cleverly linked to one another. Sadly, soon enough afterwards, no structure is perceptible and tales simply follow one another with no apparent logic.
In addition, the unabridged version includes lesser known tales, some of which are dismally boring, such as the Tale of Melibee or the Parson's Tale, both in prose. They are closer to a long series of quotations than an actual narrative. Was Chaucer being ironic in including them? Or else, are they later additions that Chaucer did not write himself?
Overall, listening to the Canterbury Tales is a unique experience that is highly recommended to all, for sheer delight but also to realize how much, and how little, our culture has evolved since medieval times.
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- Robert
- 06-01-10
Chaucer for everyone
I have attempted to read the Canterbury Tales many times in the last half century. After all, it's been a classic almost from the time of its writing but I do not believe this great work has ever been made so accessible as it has been here. The beauty of the translation is brought even more to life by the wonderful narrations. This is the best Chaucer that I have ever come across.
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- MamaBear
- 09-21-20
Translation- not ME
It’s a good translation, and well performed.
I doubt that many people will share my disappointment that this audio version isn’t in well-performed Middle English. But for those few of you, be aware that this is translated throughout. There is no “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour;...”
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- Christopher
- 10-19-10
Tales of morality
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why this collection of moral stories has stood up over the centuries. I understand that this is a new interpretation of the original texts and I understand that the narration of the stories plays a big part in the story; however, to me this tales were antiquated tales of morality. I did enjoy some of the comedic stories near the beginning, but some of the more pious stories bored me. To each their own!
Point to consider: This rendition of The Canterbury Tales also contains UNFINISHED stories. You don't know they are unfinished until the story ends. Abruptly.
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- Lynn
- 10-16-16
Good for Review
It's The Canterbury Tales, so I feel really ridiculous reviewing it as a story. It's fantastic, of course. The narration is very good. More than one actor plays different pilgrims, which is a plus. I listened to this as a refresher before teaching the stories. My only problem with it is that I wasn't always pleased with the translator's choices, which is why I gave it four stars overall. Completely pedantic, I know.
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a modern translation
sometimes it was a struggle to get through it since many tales aren't famous for a reason (downright boring) but the makers of this audio book did do the best they could. I would recommend this to a student who has to study the whole of the Canterbury Tales but needs it in plain understandable language. one thing that bothered me was that the author didn't manage to keep the rhyme scheme.
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- Richie Robertson
- 09-25-20
Was expecting knights and chivalry, got fart jokes and cheating wives instead.
This was not at all what I had expected. I know that it is a classic so it’s nice to have it under my belt, but it was just tales of voluptuous women, infidelity, and ending with a brief systematic theology on the Roman Catholic religion. The narration was good though.
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- Wayne K Dawson
- 09-01-20
A very listenable translation of the Old English
This translation doesn’t mince words. In the author’s (B Raffel) prolog, the effort was put into expressing the meaning over maintaining the rhyme. At the same time, it also maintains some of the remnant rhyme when it could, giving some feeling of the style of the original work, without making it obscure. The modernized English made it possible to capture the crudeness of some of the tale tellers and makes the work far more accessible to modern readers who are not versed in Old English. Hence, the voices of the various actors playing the parts of the various pilgrims seemed more natural and believable. Of course, even with such good acting, the subject themes of The Canterbury Tales are from a former time. I can imagine many people complaining about some of the characters and, obviously, there is plenty of discussion about religion, so it is probably not a book for people who cannot accept that Chaucer lived in a very different time and world than we do. However, considering a 14th century filter, I think Chaucer seriously discusses the matter in these tales in an intellectually honest way. Nevertheless, the treatment of women and (in one story in particular) Jews is understandably likely to offend some people. I can only plead some grace for very long dead people who weren’t raised in "wokeness". Yet even this is an advantage with an audio book. The really good tales can be reviewed again, and the more questionable ones can be heard once and never considered again without having to exert the effort of reading those parts and finding the motivation to keep on reading on. Certainly, through the timeless voice of the 14th century, The Chanouns Yemannes Tale speaks to chasing after to-good-to-be-true schemes to make a buck. The Tale of Melibeus taught me about what we seem to lack most in the modern world; prudence. The pardoner’s tale is a classic I remember from the first time I read this book. The main thing I really don't like about this audiobook was that the chapters are essentially arbitrary, containing neither a heading for what tale is being told nor even a subdivision into the different tales. Chapters close and open in the middle of several tales. In a short book, that might not matter, but in such a long book, it makes going back to find a particular tale quite difficult.
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The book was better
- By Lana Whited on 08-28-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Neville Coghill, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Ross
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Read in a mixture of Middle-English and modern English, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Terrible Recording Quality
- By Michael on 09-17-10
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- The New Translation by Gerald J. Davis
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: John Hanks
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and unabridged.
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Excellent.
- By MD on 06-29-21
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales [Blackstone]
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, Jay Carnes, Ray Porter, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much about their individual outlooks upon life as well as what life was like in late 14th-century England.
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A helpful index
- By Ruth Green on 03-06-09
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- Penguin Classics
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translation)
- Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
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Great translation but a pity about the reading.
- By Kindle Customer on 10-21-22
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, and others
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.
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WOW
- By Mitchell Drimmer on 02-25-15
By: Peter Ackroyd
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Within its audio is to be found a broad range of society - high and low, male and female, rich and poor - who express their innermost beliefs and extravagant fantasies in a series of stories they tell as they make their way to Canterbury Cathedral.
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The book was better
- By Lana Whited on 08-28-20
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Neville Coghill, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Ross
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Read in a mixture of Middle-English and modern English, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Terrible Recording Quality
- By Michael on 09-17-10
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Philip Madoc
- Length: 22 mins
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This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection. 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, courtly idealism of "The Knight's Tale" to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigor in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.
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The Canterbury Tales' Prologue
- By Asheley on 07-27-18
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The General Prologue and The Physician's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb, Philip Madoc, Michael Maloney
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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: yet it speaks to us today with almost undimmed clarity and relevance.
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Workmanlike reading in clear Middle English
- By Celia on 09-14-08
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Knight's Tale
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, and two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting.
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Great recording
- By Kotzer on 06-25-19
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales II
- Modern English Verse Translation
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Philip Madoc, Frances Jeater, John Rowe, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time. Though writing in the thirteenth century, Chaucer’s wit and observation comes down undiminished through the ages, especially in this accessible modern verse translation. The stories vary considerably from the uproarious Wife of Bath’s Tale, promoting the power of women to the sober account of patient Griselda in the Clerk’s Tale.
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale (Modern Verse Translation)
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Edward de Souza
- Length: 55 mins
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This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection. 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, courtly idealism of "The Knight's Tale" to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigor in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.
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The Knight's Tale
- By Asheley on 08-02-18
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Terry Jones
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary cannon. It helped to establish English, rather than Latin or Norman French, as an acceptable language for literature. It was also one of the earliest pieces of work to have story linking - what had previously been just collected writings which the author deemed interesting.
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A joy
- By Tad Davis on 09-25-16
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, written in the Middle English vernacular, supposedly told among a group of pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Chaucer uses the form, possibly based on knowledge of Boccaccio’s Decameron gained on a visit to Italy in 1373, to provide a highly varied portrait of his society, both secular and religious. The journey of the pilgrims, unlike that of, say, Homer’s Odysseus or of Dante in the Divine Comedy, is relatively unimportant compared to the tales themselves, where Chaucer’s true interest lies.
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Philip Madoc, Edward de Souza
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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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, courtly idealism of "The Knight's Tale" to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigor in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.