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  • Published: 20 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141393216
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $39.99

The Canterbury Tales




One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

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.

  • Published: 20 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141393216
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $39.99

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