The Essential Chaucer Reader: Selected Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer, known as “the father of English poetry,” wrote some of the most memorable stories in the English language. Timeless in the issues and ideas that they touch upon, filled with the joy, despair, kindness, and wickedness of the human soul, his works speak clearly to generation after generation. Gathered together here in a new modern prose translation are Chaucer’s early works, The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Fowls, selections from The Legend of Good Women and The House of Fame, the favorite works from The Canterbury Tales, and more.