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The Canterbury Tales by Peter Ackroyd & Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales

A Retelling

by Peter Ackroyd & Geoffrey Chaucer

Length 16 hours 44 minutes

Language English

Narrators John Curless, Steven Crossley, Graeme Malcolm, John Keating, Ron Keith, Bianca Amato, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Colin McPhillamy, Davina Porter & Toby Leonard Moore

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Summary

Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.

Classics Fiction Poetry