OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Chaucer, Geoffrey/ Fisher, Sheila
出版社：Norton
出版日期：2022.12.01
ISBN：9780393427899
書號：30257290
裝訂：平裝
定價：$378
《坎特伯里故事集》喬叟
二十九名朝聖者聚集在倫敦郊外的旅店準備前往坎特伯里，旅店老闆提議在途中分享故事，說得最好的人可以享有一頓免費的晚餐。這群朝聖者來自社會中的各個階級，包含騎士、僧侶、工匠及主婦等。故事橫跨愛情、辯論、寓言和遊記等不同主題。內容則有典雅的愛情故事，也有低俗的猥褻趣事，更少不了對社會階級的嘲諷。展示了社會的各種面向。
喬叟不使用法語或拉丁語等統治階級的語言，而用英語寫作，不僅擴大了《坎特伯里故事集》在當時的讀者群，也影響了英語的發展。
Sheila Fisher保留了原文的韻律及韻腳，讓現代讀者有機會一窺喬叟以文字創作出的藝術，也提供已讀過原文的讀者一個新的角度來欣賞這些耐人尋味的故事及角色。
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 - 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
