The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd [Audiobook] download free by Peter Ackroyd
- Listen audiobook: The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd
- Author: Peter Ackroyd
- Release date: 2010/2/16
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780141442297
- Rating: 9.42 of 10
- Votes: 709
- Review by: Rosemary Farmer
- Review rating: 9.61 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/25
- Duration: 5H43M35S in 256 kbps (92.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Shorten, WAV, WMA, AAC, MPEG4, MP3, MPEG-4 ALS (compression RAR, ZIP, LZO, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 464
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M20S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling modern English prose, with illustrations by Nick Bantock in Penguin Classics.On a pilgrimage to Canterbury, a group of travellers agree to a storytelling competition. As they make their way on the road, they drink, laugh, flirt, argue and try to outdo each other with their tales. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly romance - the tales encompass a blend of universal human themes, retold here for our times by bestselling author Peter Ackroyd.The edition also includes an introduction by Ackroyd, detailing some of the historical background to Chaucer and the Tales, and why he has been inspired to translate them for a new generation of readers.Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, courtier and diplomat, best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is credited as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language. The first poet to have been buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, his other works include The House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde and The Book of the Duchess.Peter Ackroyd (b. 1949) is an award-winning writer and historian. Formerly literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, he is the author of novels such as Hawksmoor (1985) and The House of Doctor Dee (1993), as well as non-fiction including Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion (2002), London: The Biography (2000), and Thames: Sacred River (2007). 'Ackroyd's retelling is compulsive, bold and rare ... as fresh as new paint'Observer'The only version to read'Time Out
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Classic Books & Novels
- Download servers: Dropbox, Hotfile, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DivShare, FileServe, 700 files, Mediafire. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, LZO, BZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.34 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x20mm
- Weight: 319g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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