Member Reviews

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  2 of 2 members found this review helpful.

  • Rated 3 stars

  “Wonderful, as long as I can read it in "translation" - ye olde Englyshe makes mine eyen glazen overr. ”

  Tinky wrote this review Friday, December 21 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “I cherish these tales....once read in modern English. The old English versions will confound you...unless you can stomach it. The tales are happy, sad, passionate, some even boring - adventurous, romantic, mysterious, formidable.....just about whatever you're looking for. The Canterbury Tales will always survive the test of time.”

  Max G wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “One of those timeless collections that I even enjoyed back when it was an assignment. This particular version, done in prose instead of poetry and annotated with comments by the translator, I found to be particularly interesting.
  
  Note: My copy was not the version pictured here; mine was published in the 1960's and did not have an ISBN that I could find in the book, so this copy is serving as the picture.”

  Jen M wrote this review Saturday, September 6 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 2 stars

  “I always hated reading in high school so when i turned 30 I decided I would start reading classics. This wasn't a good one to start with, it was very painful to get through.”

  Jodi d wrote this review Sunday, August 31 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “One of the few books from high school curriculum that has stayed with me. Loved it!”

  Amy B wrote this review Tuesday, August 26 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “This was assigned reading my senior year in high school. I read it again in college (my English major roommates insisted:)) and every few years I like to pick it up again and go on their adventures. I will probably make this a vacation title this summer. ”

  Mrs. S wrote this review Friday, July 11 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 0 stars

  “Very funny if you can understand the old English dialect. ”

  GentleJourneyAuthor wrote this review Monday, June 2 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “Don't remember much about it and don't like the teacher I read it with.”

  Jessica L wrote this review Sunday, June 1 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “Love these! I loved traveling to Canterbury (England) where I could (kind of) walk the path of the travelers. They are humorous, interesting and intelligent. (The Miller's Tale or The Wife of Bath's Tale, anyone?)”

  Andrea G wrote this review Wednesday, May 21 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance. ”

  Foundations Reading at Campbell CI wrote this review Monday, May 19 2008. ( reply | permalink )