Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine...

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer & Burton Raffel

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine...

Troilus and Criseyde

by Geoffrey Chaucer & Nevill Coghill

The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde,...

The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition

by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse,...

The Tales of the Clerk and the Wife of Bath

by Geoffrey Chaucer & Marion Wynne-Davies

The first feminist edition of these two tales. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poems' production in a critical commentary to the texts. Also includes a line by line gloss and a...

The Complete Works of Chaucer In Middle English

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English:

The Canterbury Tales

The Book of the Duchess

The House of Fame

Anelida and Arcite

The Parliament of Fowls

Boece

Troilus...

Chaucer's Shorter Poems

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of short poems by Geoffrey Chaucer:

The Book of the Duchess

The House of Fame

The Parliament of Fowles

Truth

Gentilesse

Merciles Beaute

Lak of Stedfastnesse

The Dream Visions of Geoffrey Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Compiled here are some of Chaucer's shorter poems. These poems are all written using the Dream Vision. To name a few of these peoms: The Book of Duchesse, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, The...

The Wife of Bath

by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer...

Troilus and Criseyde

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Remarkable for his beauty and bravery, the warrior Troilus is an engaging youth who lives, and eventually dies, for Cressida, a virtuous, tender-hearted woman driven to infidelity by circumstance. Regarded by...

Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out...

Pan Tadeusz

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer, and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem...