First published in 1926, as the second edition of a 1911 original, this book contains selections from The Canterbury Tales translated into Modern English for the younger reader. Numerous illustrations and a pronouncing dictionary of proper names are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in The Canterbury Tales and pedagogical approaches to Chaucer.

 

There are 206 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: The prologue; Part I. The First Day: 1. The Knight's Tale of Palamon and Arcite; Part II. The Second Day: 2. The Man of Law's Tale of Constance; 3. Chaucer and The Host; 4. The Monk's Tale of the Falls of Great Men; 5. The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer; Part III. The Third Day: 6. The Wife of Bath's prologue; 7. The Wife of Bath's Tale; 8. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner and the Fiend; 9. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner; 10. The Clerk of Oxford's Tale of Patient Grieselda; Part IV. The Fourth Day: 11. The Squires Tale of Cambuscan; 12. The Pardoner's prologue; 13. The Pardoner's Tale of the three revellers; 14. The Canon's Yeoman; 15. The Manciple and the cook; 16. The Manciple's Tale; 17. The Parson's Tale; 18. Dictionary; 19. Illustrations.