The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (translator),

Book cover of The Canterbury Tales

Book description

Coming soon!
Explore
Topics
Genres
  • Coming soon!
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Why read it?

1 author picked The Canterbury Tales as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Eleanor Janega Author Of The Canterbury Tales
Eleanor Janega
Author

I love this stupid, sexy mess of a book.

Oh, you think you know what the Canterbury Tales is about? No. You don’t. It’s about shagging in pear trees while your blind husband sits below you. It’s about weird non-binary people that your travelling companions don’t know what to make of. It’s about love and death and meaning and fart jokes. The Canterbury Tales is a brilliantly alive, deliciously bawdy, surprisingly disarming work that will help you understand what regular people in the Middle Ages wanted to read about.

For bonus points, get a hold of the Riverside Chaucer translation…

From Eleanor's list on illuminating the Middle Ages.

Want books like The Canterbury Tales?

Our community of 11,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Canterbury Tales.

Book cover of Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages Book cover of The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science Book cover of The Inferno Book cover of Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society Book cover of The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God Book cover of Pilgrimage in Medieval England

Browse books like The Canterbury Tales

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in Christian pilgrimages, the Middle Ages, and non-binary gender topics and characters?

Christian Pilgrimages 9 books
The Middle Ages 429 books
Non-Binary Gender Topics And Characters 37 books