The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

This is a collection of the best stories ever told by Chauser. He lived from 1343 till 1400 in Lundon England. He was well versed in Latan, French, Italian and English. This book is a translation by Peter Accroyd in modern English so as to make it more accessable to the modern reader. The book descr......more

Wow! Peter Ackroyd has made it possible for a great-literature bumpkin like me to experience the gist of Chaucer's most well-known work, perhaps the best-known middle-English literature. The author has translated into modern English this ancient set of stories recorded by Geoffrey Chaucer in the lat......more

Since I didn’t have to learn French to read “Madame Bovary” or Russian to read “War and Peace” I’ve always wondered why academics think we should only read the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English with its archaic words and cryptic spelling. Most of us have slogged through a page or two o......more

of the translations I used as a reference point, i enjoyed this one the most despite how intensely liberal it is (not a translations but a "retelling), as its the only one i've seen that holds up on an aesthetic basis--though, i think it's pretty important to remember, the aesthetic is ackroyd's, no......more

it’s nice to have a read-able version of chaucer that actually makes sense, but the transition was a bit direct and made the stories a bit too choppy. i enjoyed the humour though, a really good interpretation of the tales!......more