/lit/ - Literature

Rank all the tales from The Canterbury Tales? From worst to best
>The Tale of Melibee
>The Parson's Tale
>The Monk's Tale
>The Clerk's Tale
>The Second Nun's Tale
>The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
>The Tale of Sir Topaz
>The Summoner's Tale
>The Nun's Priest's Tale
>The Physician's Tale
>The Friar's Tale
>The Manciple's Tale
>The Pardoner's Tale
>The Shipman's Tale
>The Prioress's Tale
>The Merchant's Tale
>The Miller's Tale
>The Man of Law's Tale
>The Franklin's Tale
>The Squire's Tale
>The Cook's Tale
>The Knight's Tale
>The Reeve's Tale
>The Wife of Bath's Tale

>"And that concludes The Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer.

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>Geoffrey Chaucer stands in your way

Evening /lit/! A little drunk, a little stoned, working on an assignment (translating one of the tales from The Canterbury Tales into modern English prose). Give me your age, three favourite poets, three favourite fiction writer, three favourite nonfiction writers, three favourite dramatists, and three favourite philosophers!
Age
>30
Poets
>Ted Hughes
>William Butler Yeats
>Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fiction
>James Joyce
>William Faulkner
>Graham Swift
Non Fiction (Essays and memoirs)
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>David Foster Wallace
>Jonathan Franzen
Dramatists
>Samuel Beckett
>Eugene O'Neill
>William Shakespeare
Philosophers
>Roland Barthes
>Jacques Lacan
>Aristotle

Which edition to get of the Canterbury Tales?

All I can find are abridged bullshit versions and crap translated into modern verse? I've looked around on a few websites but often the preview only shows some self-indulgent foreword, and whatever description might come along with the book is weirdly evasive as it respects the language.

Help me out please bros. I want to read him he looks so friendly.