by Geoffrey Chaucer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432039218
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«Cuentos de Canterbury» is Geoffrey Chaucer's collection of medieval tales, published by Planeta in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
A pilgrimage to the shrine of Canterbury, where the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket is venerated, serves as a thread for a collection of tales narrated by characters from different social strata. The narration combines irony, satire and humour with allusions to astronomy, medicine and alchemy.
The edition was published on 29 March 1995 in Planeta's Resortes collection, where it is number 90. It includes an introduction by Jordi Lamarca.
For readers of classic fiction and students approaching medieval literature at secondary school.
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
