Geoffrey Chaucer

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for Gladiator and Gosford Park), Michael...

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder....

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....

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...

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....

Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1340, was the first great English poet. The immense popularity of the "Canterbury Tales" is shown by the number of...

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....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw. One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic...

Джеффри Чосер, виднейший из английских поэтов и писателей Средневековья...

In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums....

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary canon....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

The story is in the form of an exemplum: the Pardoner first explains the theme he will address, then tells his story and finally draws the conclusion he had already mentioned in his introduction....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....

Narrated in Middle English by J.B. Bessinger, Jr....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection....