Catholic Reading Plan

The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English (Vintage Classics)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Pilgrims exchange stories on the road to Canterbury in Chaucer’s lively portrait of human motives, social life, and religious culture.

Literature

Original date: Not yet verified

Reading level: Intermediate

Reading guides

Source notes & edition details

Fr. John Hardon
Title variant matched by author and work to the secondary transcription.

Joseph Pearce
Chapter title in the public table of contents of Pearce’s fifty-work guide. This verifies inclusion, not an endorsement of a particular translation.

Explore the themes

fiction faith and imagination

Original catalog editions

Vintage (2011), Edition: Reprint, 352 pages
The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English (Vintage Classics)