书名：The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数800
作者：Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗雷·乔叟
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2013
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780451416780
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.9 x 17.2 cm
包装：简装
页数：374 （以实物为准）

The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》是一部诗体短篇小说集，由“英国诗歌之父”乔叟历时十五年创作而成，主要叙述了一群香客到坎特伯雷城去朝圣的路上，为解闷而各自轮流所讲的奇异故事，这些故事内容包罗万象，有雅有俗，十分有趣。此外，这也是首部使用十音节“双韵体”的作品，具有重要的文学价值。本书节选了原书中较出名的故事，如《骑士的故事》《巴斯妇的故事》等，适合英语专业或中古英语爱好者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.乔叟杰出代表作，书中文学体裁丰富，含骑士传奇、圣徒传、布道文等；
2.作品将幽默和讽刺结合，喜剧色彩浓厚，其中大部分故事采用双韵诗体写成；
3.每篇故事都有开场语，并附有规范的中古英语拼写及发音系统，另标注词汇解析，有助于理解原文。
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as “the father of English literature” rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken in their entirety, reflect not only the manners and mores of medieval England, but indeed, the full comic and tragic dimensions of the human condition. Considered the greatest collection of narrative poems in English literature, The Canterbury Tales was composed in the Middle English of Chaucer’s day, possibly to be read aloud at the court of Richard II. However, their grandeur, humor, and relevance are timeless, as readers of this authoritative edition will discover.
UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE SIGNET CLASSICS CANTERBURY TALES
FULL CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR DONALD R. HOWARD
* NORMALIZED SPELLING SYSTEM FOR EASIER READING AND PRONUNCIATION
* EXTENSIVE FOOTNOTES * SPECIAL SECTION “ON PRONOUNCING CHAUCER”
* GLOSSARY OF BASIC MIDDLE ENGLISH WORDS
WITH A FOREWORD BY FRANK GRADY AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY PAUL STROHM

The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken in their entirety, reflect not only the manners and mores of medieval England, but indeed, the full comic and tragic dimensions of the human condition.

The son of a wealthy and high-connected vintner,Geoffrey Chaucer(c. 1342–1400) received a classical education prior to becoming a page at the court of King Edward III. As soldier, statesman, public official, and court poet, he remained in contact with the most important people of his time. Chaucer was sent on several diplomatic missions to Italy, where he read and was deeply influenced by the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The Italian influence is evident in his masterpiece, Canterbury Tales, on which he worked intermittently for at least twenty years.Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Donald R. Howard was the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and the author of a number of noted books on medieval literature, including The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World, The Idea of the World (1966), The Idea of The Canterbury Tales (1976), and Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity (1980).
Frank Grady is Professor of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he teaches medieval literature, literary theory, and film. He has published essays on both late medieval English literature and contemporary American popular culture, and he is currently editor of the annual of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Paul StrohmisProfessor Emeritus at Columbia University and was formerly J.R.R. TolkienProfessor at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Social Chaucer (Harvard, 1989 and 1944) and other books on medieval literature, history, and society.

Preface
Introduction
ANote on This Edition
OnGeoffrey Chaucer
Chronology
SELECTED CANTERBURY TALES
TheGeneral Prologue
TheKnight’s Tale
TheMiller’s Prologue and Tale
TheReeve’s Prologue and Tale
TheShipman’s Tale
TheShipman-Prioress Link
ThePrioress’ Prologue and Tale
ThePrologue And Tale of Sir Thopas
TheMonk’s Prologue
TheNun’s Priest’s Prologue and Tale
TheWife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
TheClerk’s Prologue and Epilogue
“L’Envoyde Chaucer”
TheMerchant’sPrologue and Tale
TheFranklin Addresses the Squire
TheFranklin’sPrologue and Tale
TheHost Addresses the Pardoner
ThePardoner’s Prologue and Tale
TheParson’s Prologue
“Retraction”
Glossary of Basic Words
Afterword: The Pilgrim Society