“I don’t believe that the past is necessarily in the past. It’s forever, it’s always around us.” Peter Ackroyd And proves it to the whole world with his translation from Old English into modern language of one of the greatest poems of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) "Canterbury Tales" is a mosaic of amazing stories. Religious, domestic, romantic, told by medieval pilgrims on the way from London to Canterbury, people of different ages, social status and temperament, and the voice of each of them retains the brightness and freshness of the vernacular style. Chaucer’s work is most likely famous for its salty humor, and many of its plots are easily recognizable (for example, “The Tale of King Saltan”) And now we can enjoy Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as translated by Peter Ackroyd.