Libri di Geoffrey Chaucer Migliori da leggere e Consigliati

I Canterbury Tales furono concepiti intorno al 1386, durante un soggiorno nel Kent, e successivamente rielaborati e continuati senza sosta. Si tratta di una raccolta di novelle nelle quali Chaucer ha tracciato una sintesi del Medioevo borghese.

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 on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.