Author:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Imprint:Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p1992.
Description12 compact discs (13 hr.) : analog.
Note:An unabridged recording of the "general prologue and twelve major tales."
Note:Edited by Michael Murphy.
Note:Chaucer's Middle English has been updated by Professor Michael Murphy of Brooklyn College.
Note:The general prologue -- The knight's tale -- The miller's tale -- The reeve's tale -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The friar's tale -- The clerk's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The franklin's tale -- The pardoner's tale -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's tale -- The nun's priest's tale.
Note:Presents a recording of Chaucer's work, which begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly, the innkeeper, suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale, "Shall have a supper at our aller cost/ When that we come again from Canterbury."
Note : PerformerHosted by Michael Murphy ; with various narrators.
Location Note : REQUEST AT THE CHECK-OUT DESK.
