Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The Canterbury Tales, (Paperback)

from jburlinson

Rather than "A Retelling," this should be called "A Retailing." Ackroyd is a man of letters. There's not a lot of money in lettering these days. So what do you do to bring home the bacon in a tough economy without having to break a sweat? You take a perennial classic in a "foreign" language, trot...

from jburlinson

Rather than "A Retelling," this should be called "A Retailing." Ackroyd is a man of letters. There's not a lot of money in lettering these days. So what do you do to bring home the bacon in a tough economy without having to break a sweat? You take a perennial classic in a "foreign" language, trot...

from LynnB

Peter Ackroyd has undertaken a re-writing of The Canterbury Tales in modern English prose. He has made these stories accessible to the modern reader, thereby giving us a glimpse of life in medieval times -- morals, beliefs, customs and occupations. Some of the stories were great; others less enga...

from TomMcGreevy

As the book jacket accurately states "love, sex, infidelity, villainy, drunkenness, murder..." This is an accessible prose version of Chaucer's verse. It gives a real flavour of medieval life and for medieval thought. Tales with religion throughout but not particularly venerated, mostly focusing ...

from mbmackay

Ackroyd has "translated" Canterbury Tales into modern English and made it readily accessible. I have tried to read CT in the past, the original text is beyond me, and even the examples of side-by-side text haven't really made it possible for me to read cover to cover. The text is good, lively wit...