Geoffrey Chaucer

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....

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

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

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....

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....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw....

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

Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks....

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....

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....

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

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

The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross....