The Canterbury Tales

About this book

Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn the travelers including a battle-worn knight a sweetly pretentious prioress the bawdy Wife of Bath and an emaciated scholar-clerk come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas Beckets shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England are adapted into graphic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucers pointed satire. Chwasts illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery of piety and bawdiness in an engaging style that will appeal to those who have enjoyed The Canterbury Tales for years and those for whom this is a first delectable introduction.