The Best Editions of The Canterbury Tales

 For those of you interested in reading The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, I greatly recommend the following versions of this classic work of Medieval literature: 

The No Fear: Canterbury Tales does a great job at breaking down the Middle English text and explaining it in modern English to those otherwise unfamiliar with Middle English. This is good for any beginner not yet grounded in an understanding of either Middle English or Chaucer's works. 

  This edition from Barnes and Noble includes almost all of The Canterbury Tales. It has a modern English translation for each line of the Middle English text. What also makes this version great, however, are the many scholarly notes within this copy on The Canterbury Tales. 

This edition of The Canterbury Tales by Books-A-Million is one of the few that I am aware of that includes all of the stories. This edition is a good choice for those familiar with Middle English. 

The Riverside Chaucer includes not only The Canterbury Tales but all the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. This is the best work of Chaucer for any student or teacher of English literature that I have ever seen.