The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories in Middle English verse written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.
Bibliographic notesThere are no surviving manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales known to date from Chaucer's lifetime, but a variety of manuscripts in other hands, and some early printed copies, survive from the 15th century. The order of the tales is not certain, nor is it certain whether Chaucer completed the collection he intended. Present-day editions are based on the available manuscripts. Many editions translate Chaucer's work into more readable modern English; some also censor some of his cruder expression.
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, An Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary (5 volumes; London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1822), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by Thomas Tyrwhitt - The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text, with Illustrative Notes (3 volumes; London: Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1847-1851), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by Arthur Burrell (HTML at Bibliomania)
- The Canterbury Tales (in Middle and Modern English, with glossary), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by Sinan Kökbugur (frame-dependent HTML at librarius.com)
- The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited for Popular Perusal, by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by D. Laing Purves (Gutenberg text)
- The Canterbury Tales (Caxton's two 15th-century editions), by Geoffrey Chaucer (page images with commentary at the British Library)
- The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands (3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by George Ogle, contrib. by John Urry, Thomas Betterton, John Dryden, Samuel Cobb, Samuel Boyse, Henry Brooke, Alexander Pope, Jeremiah Markland, and Mr. Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Modern Rendering into Prose of the Prologue and Ten Tales (New York: Duffield and company, 1914), by Geoffrey Chaucer and Percy MacKaye, illust. by Walter Appleton Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Canterbury Tales: A Complete Translation into Modern English (c1993), by Geoffrey Chaucer, trans. by Ronald L. Ecker and Eugene Joseph Crook (HTML at fsu.edu)
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