书名：The Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事
作者：Chaucer Geoffrey
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1981

语种：英语
ISBN：9780553210828
商品尺寸：10.5 x 2.8 x 17.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：420（以实物为准）

《坎特伯雷故事》是一部诗体故事集，由英国作家乔叟创作，大部分以韵诗形式写成。

讲述了一群香客到坎特伯雷城去朝圣的路上，为解闷而各人所说的奇异故事。这群人来自社会各阶层，有教士、武士、修女、大学生、工匠等等，他们的故事也广泛地反映了当时的社会风貌。

作品将幽默和讽刺结合，喜剧色彩浓厚。其中刻画了不同阶层的人物，讽刺封建社会的丑恶，揭露社会的腐朽，反对禁欲主义，宣扬世俗享乐。其间以短小的戏剧场面串连，故事的内容和文体各异，并符合每一个讲述者的身份。

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.

杰弗雷·乔叟，英国小说家、诗人，主要作品有小说集《坎特伯雷故事集》。

乔叟出生于伦敦一个富裕的商人家庭，受过大学教育，熟悉法语和意大利语。1357年开始出入宫廷，后常出访欧洲，在意大利接触到了但丁、薄伽丘等人的作品，这影响了他后来的文学创作。

乔叟于1400年在伦敦去世，葬在威斯敏斯特教堂的“诗人之角”。他被誉为“英国诗歌之父”，其首创的英雄双韵体为以后的英国诗人所广泛采用。

ChaucerGGeoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's earliest major poem, The Book of the Duchess.

From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s - The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale - and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde.