Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, author, and civil servant who is widely regarded as the father of English literature. Born in London around 1343, he served as a diplomat, customs official, and Member of Parliament while writing the works that would define English literary tradition. The Canterbury Tales follows a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury, each telling stories to pass the time — creating a vivid, bawdy, comic portrait of medieval English society across all classes. The work is a masterpiece of characterisation, storytelling, and social observation. Chaucer died in 1400. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers the foundational work of English literature — a seven-hundred-year-old collection of stories that remains funny, rude, and brilliantly alive.