The Canterbury Tales

Aug 28, 2025 6:15 PM

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer,Nevill Coghill

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.

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[Goodman] skillfully entwines the past and present, the mundane and magical, love and loss, to spin a beautifully nuanced and sensuous tale rooted in legend and lore

—— Booklist

Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches

—— Time Out

Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern literature

—— George Steiner , Times Literary Supplement

He has created a body of work of luminous power: ironic, intellectually playful, dense and strange

—— Scotsman

Shows Saramago to be a novelist of the grandest sort...it is a dramatic work of great philosophical weight, filtered through a refined contemplative intelligence

—— Independent

A study in symmetry, possessing a peculiar charm, humour and wisdom uniquely its own

—— Irish Times

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