TrackSectionReaderLength
0101 - PrefaceGesine5:33
0202 - The Life of Geoffrey ChaucerChip57:59
0303 - The General PrologueThomas Hoover38:29
0404a - The Knight's TaleTed Delorme1:05:39
0504b - The Knight's TaleTed Delorme1:19:09
0605 - The Miller's TaleTed Delorme54:25
0706 - The Reeve's TaleTed Delorme23:05
0807 - The Cook's TaleChip7:08
0908 - The Man Of Law's TaleChip1:19:09
1009 - The Wife of Bath's TaleKristin LeMoine1:03:02
1110 - The Friar's TaleKara Shallenberg22:16
1211 - The Sompnour's TaleChip42:25
1312 - The Clerk's TaleChip1:19:28
1413 - The Merchant's TaleFounding Father1:06:01
1514 - The Squire's TaleJoshua Young30:59
1615 - The Franklin's TaleAlex Foster43:09
1716 - The Doctor's TaleAlex Foster16:21
1817 - The Pardoner's TaleDavid Barnes39:22
1918 - The Shipman's TaleGwen26:59
2019 - The Prioress's TaleAlex Foster14:28
2120 - The Tale of Sir ThopasJim Mowatt10:00
2221 - Chaucer's Tale of MeliboeusKirsten Ferreri35:33
2322 - The Monk's TaleAndy Minter46:49
2423 - The Nun's Priest's TaleGraham Williams46:22
2524 - The Second Nun's TaleAlys AtteWater27:08
2625 - The Canons Yeoman's TaleJoshua Young36:50
2726 - The Manciple's TaleThomas Hoover16:34
2827 - The Parson's TaleRobert Foster54:20
2928 - Preces de ChauceresGesine3:00

Notes
Running Time: 18 hours and 52 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Gesine
Meta Coordinator: Gesine

Artwork
Cover: The Prioress' Tale, 1865-98 by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).
Inset: Engraving of Geoffrey Chaucer from Cassell's History of England - Century Edition - c. 1902.
Insert; The Canterbury Pilgrims, 1808, by William Blake.

Recordings
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims who compete in a story-telling contest for a prize of a free dinner as they journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury.  The tales, which are told in both prose and poetry, are earthy, candid, comic and ironic, and often cast English society and the Anglican Church in a critical light. The structure of the work resembles The Decameron of Boccaccio, which Chaucer, a courtier and diplomat as well as an author, is likely to have read.  The Canterbury Tales appeared at the end of the 14th Century and is considered the first important literary work written in Middle English, the language of the people, and became the base for the use of English in those great works that might otherwise have been written in Latin for the ever-dwindling audience who spoke, wrote and read that dying language.   Chaucer produced a long list of notable works, but The Canterbury Tales stand as his magnum opus and that sealed his reputation as England’s first great poet.


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Item Info
EAN - DVD case 0683422135132
EAN - CD jacket 0687700170815
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400)
Year c. 1400
Recording
Read by Multiple readers
Length 18 hours and 52 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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