Chaucer's Cantervury Tales Author:Geoffrey Chaucer "...I prefer Mr. Lumiansky's modernization of The Canterbury Tales to any...now available...his prose has found so natural a way to render the absolute plainness of Chaucer...he has got to the incorruptible center of a humorous, just, merciful man...it is merely the stories that we get, as clear as sunlight and as live as human speech." — --From ... more »the preface by Mark Van Doren« less