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Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is busily attending to her patients and preparing for the Christmas holiday when the news arrives that the painter Richard Blunt has confessed to killing his young wife and two men. But his confession arouses Kathryn's suspicions, and she is compelled to investigate.

Short selection from the Canterbury Tales--a group of stories told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Catherdral--in the original Middle English with definitions, followed by essays on the background of each story, plus criticisms of the texts.

A group of pilgrims tell their stories on the way to Canterbury Cathedral.

A selection of eight stories from the "Canterbury Tales" in which members of a company of pilgrims discuss their lives and adventures while on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury.

An annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales," a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

An illustrated retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.

Describes the Shaker lifestyle through true stories of Nicholas Briggs and Anita Potter, two children who lived with them, one in the 1850s, the other in the 1920s and as well as through numerous crafts and activites.

A retelling in comic strip form of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work in which a group of pilgrims in fourteenth-century England tell each other stories as they travel on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Canterbury.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas ? Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.