The Canterbury Tales
and other poems - Unabridged edition with notesBy Geoffrey Chaucer
Length38h 26m
About this audiobook
Writing at the end of a tragic and violent century, Chaucer portrays England as a discordant nation, where virtue prevails over vice and vice is an occasion for laughter rather than cause for indignation. To do so, he stages a group of pilgrims heading from London to Canterbury, who meet along the way and tell stories. There is a good-natured and somewhat prevaricating innkeeper, a modest and virtuous knight who has seen a thousand military campaigns, a learned but somewhat greedy medical doctor, and no shortage of civil servants, millers and farmers, good country parish priests, vain nuns and corrupt friars. The result is a cross-section of a mobile and restless society, whose characters seem almost like our contemporaries. Therein lies Chaucer's true masterpiece: in the vividness of the subjects depicted in the frame to the actual tales.
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GenrePoetry, Literary Classics, History
Length38 hrs 26 mins
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Table of contents
1Chapter
2PREFACE.
3LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.: Notes to Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
4Notes to Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
5THE PROLOGUE.
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6Notes to the Prologue
7THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1> (pt. 1)
8THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1> (pt. 2)
9Notes to The Knight's Tale.
10THE MILLER'S TALE.
11Notes to the Prologue to the Miller's Tale
12Notes to the Miller's Tale
13THE REEVE'S TALE.
14Notes to the Prologue to the Reeves Tale.
15THE TALE.<1>
16Notes to the Reeve's Tale
17THE COOK'S TALE.
18Notes to the Prologue to the Cook's Tale
19THE TALE.
20Notes to the Cook's Tale
21THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE.
22Notes to the Prologue to The Man of Law's Tale
23THE TALE. <1>
24Notes to the Man of Law's Tale
25THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE.
26Notes to the Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale
27THE TALE. <1>
28Notes to the Wife of Bath's Tale
29THE FRIAR'S TALE.
30Notes to the Prologue to the Friar's tale
31THE TALE.
32Notes to the Friar's Tale
33THE SOMPNOUR'S TALE.
34Notes to the Prologue to the Sompnour's Tale
35THE TALE.
36Notes to the Sompnour's Tale
37THE CLERK'S TALE.
38Notes to the Prologue to the Clerk's Tale
39THE TALE.<1>
40Notes to the Clerk's Tale
41THE MERCHANT'S TALE.
42Notes to the Prologue to the Merchant's Tale
43THE TALE.<l>
44Notes to The Merchant's Tale
45THE SQUIRE'S TALE.
46Notes to the Prologue to the Squire's Tale
47THE TALE.<1>
48Notes to the Squire's Tale
49THE FRANKLIN'S TALE.
50Notes to the Prologue to the Franklin's Tale
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