′Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.′Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer′s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pil
Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experie
'Those husbands that I had,Three of them were good and two were bad.The three that I call 'good' were rich and old...' One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales
Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write 'Gothic' stories as a way of putting literatu
Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and
The Broadview Canterbury Tales is a new edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer's scrib
The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucer's enduring look into medieval life. Aristocratic high life, working class ribaldry, and lowly common outlooks all mix in Chaucer's timelss tales. On thier pilg
