The Canterbury Tales

Another medieval classic off my bucket list! Thank you to audio books for making what could have been a slog into a fun romp. This version of the Canterbury Tales is not in the original Middle English in language or pronunciation; it’s been modernized but has caught the spirit of the originally, including staying in meter where it counts. I love that each of the traveller’s tell their stories in a different accent or even voice (there is more than one narrator) and I felt I was in the pilgrimage journey with very human companions. Warning to some readers: a couple of the stories are quite raunchy because that’s the storytellers’ personality. Many are hilarious, a couple quite tragic and there’s a good dose of religious preaching from, of course, the religious characters. The prologues are almost my favorite parts, as the characters reveal their personalities while setting up their tales. Long listen but so worth it.