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1.The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library) by: Geoffrey Chaucer November 18, 2008
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2.The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by: Geoffrey Chaucer February 04, 2003
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Coghill - a friend of Lewis - provides a very fresh and loyal translation (a verse translation) to Chaucer. Nothing of course is better than the real thing, but I suggest this always as a happy second.

3.Canterbury Tales by: Geoffrey Chaucer 1960-06
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Please note: The Bantam version (translated by Hieatt) only contains the most popular of the Tales. (Use the "Inside this Book" feature to check the table of contents, as I, alas, did not.) The facing page translation is just what I was looking for, but really wanted the complete set.

4.The Canterbury Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by: Geoffrey Chaucer May 19, 2005
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Why the Norton edition -- which preserves these tales in their original Middle English dialect -- over the "translated" versions of Chaucer's classic stories? Because it's only in their original form that they retain the poetry and power of Chaucer's intent. I read these stories with a professor who could passably read Middle English and it was a revelation. Before, with translated versions, I had never quite understood why Chaucer was considered so great, so necessary to the canon. Hearing them in the original form, I suddenly understood. The tales are funny, dirty, odd stories (like an English version of "The Decameron") told in striking, blood-stirring rhyme and rhythm. Hearing them read aloud was like music to the ear. Which makes the smoothed-over versions feel flat and dead to the ear. Read More

5.The Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classics) by: Geoffrey Chaucer August 01, 1997
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For the average reader ogf Chaucer, this is a suberb read...for ther schoilar there are better choices..but you can't go wrong with this one

6.The Canterbury Tales: (original-spelling edition) (Penguin Classics) by: Geoffrey Chaucer August 30, 2005
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As a reader of Middle English tales in the original spelling and structure, I found this edition to be a good publication. It makes for good adventure and humor and suspense. I enjoy reading Chaucer in front of my fireplace on snowy winter nights.

7.The Riverside Chaucer by: Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Benson, Robert Pratt, F.N. Robinson December 12, 1986
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A great collection of Chaucer. It's hard to find his other works combined with the Canterbury Tales. The book is well bound and will be something that can be durable enough to stay on the shelves for decades. The entire book is written in Middle English however. There are plenty of footnotes, but often times the reader will need to find a translation to fully understand some of the passages.

8.Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) by: Geoffrey Chaucer December 15, 2008
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Amazon seems to be including all the reviews of different editions and translations of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" on the same page. If you read the reviews here you will be very confused. Some refer to an original language edition (either the one made by R. A. Shoaf or Stephen Barney's Norton Critical edition), and some refer to a translation, at least one to the translation done by Nevill Coghill. The reader needs to pay careful attention to what edition is actually on the screen when making a selection. If you want to read the original text, I would recommend Stephen Barney's edition. Barney is the editor who made the critical edition for the Riverside Chaucer, and his Norton Critical edition includes ten excellent critical essays in addition to Chaucer's poem, Giovanni Boccaccio's "Il ... Read More

9.Chanticleer and the Fox by: Geoffrey Chaucer November 01, 1982
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I read this one today to preview it for my children. While I like the moral of the story, do not trust in flattery, it comes about in a disjointed way at the end of the book. I had to read the rooster, foxes, and woman's comments twice to be sure I was getting what each one said! Throughout the book there are references to "all the rooster's hens," "his 7 wives" and so on. I find this inappropriate for a children's book. Including "when I see the beauty of your face...my fears die away" and "groan in his throat like a man troubled by his dreams." Too many references as though this rooster is really a man. It was just a weird book to me. I will not be reading it to my children.

10.The Complete Canterbury Tales by: Geoffrey Chaucer September 30, 2007
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I read this one today to preview it for my children. While I like the moral of the story, do not trust in flattery, it comes about in a disjointed way at the end of the book. I had to read the rooster, foxes, and woman's comments twice to be sure I was getting what each one said! Throughout the book there are references to "all the rooster's hens," "his 7 wives" and so on. I find this inappropriate for a children's book. Including "when I see the beauty of your face...my fears die away" and "groan in his throat like a man troubled by his dreams." Too many references as though this rooster is really a man. It was just a weird book to me. I will not be reading it to my children.

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