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The Canterbury Tales
- Author
- Seymour Chwast
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 3 December 2026
- Run Time
- 1 hour
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 à Becket's 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 Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's 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.
Critics Review
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With all due respect to Dante, this is Chwast's Divine Comedy ... [Chwast] makes the Divine Comedy irresistibly comic and inspirationally transcendent.
Kirkus (starred review) for Dante's Divine Comedy
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With his signature mix of humor, artistry, and high-level design, he conveys a breathtaking amount of information in clear black and white line drawings...Chwast does a stunning job of telling Dante's story in his own brilliant style.
Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Dante's Divine Comedy
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A clever reimagining of a classic...the lamentations of the damned were never so much fun.
Entertainment Weekly on Dante's Divine Comedy
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Diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings...an accessible introduction to The Divine Comedy -- a sort of high-end, WHAM-POW Cliff's Notes.... fiendishly entertaining.
NPR.org on Dante's Divine Comedy
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Details
- Author
- Seymour Chwast
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Release Date
- 3 December 2026
- ISBN
- 9798260202821
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- American style / tradition comic books, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions
Synopsis
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 à Becket's 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 Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's 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.
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