The Canterbury Tales

#653

Title: The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Translator: J. U. Nicholson
Publisher: Dover

Year: 1990/2004

576 pages

Audiobook

I  was happy finally to read the complete set of stories rather than excerpted tales. It was entertaining to read "The Pardoner's Tale" again after having read  "The Tale of the Three Brothers" in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I'd never have read the long, dry religious sections had I not been listening to an audiobook, and I would merely find them odd had not Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century given me the background and context I needed to understand why Chaucer included them. I now have a strong desire to re-read Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and to bump The Decameron up my list.