The Canterbury tales / Chaucer, Geoffrey

A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury. Includes an introduction and notes.

Presents Geoffrey Chaucer's classic collection of tales about pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral, and includes explanatory notes, an introduction, a Chaucer chronology, and a select bibliography.

Contains adaptations of thirteen tales told by a motley assortment of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in about 1387.

The noble Knight, the tipsy Miller, the hypocritical Pardoner, the randy Wife of Bath, and other pilgrims trade stories on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Beckett at Canterbury.

A modern English prose translation of this ageless title with a preface by Mark Van Doren.

The noble Knight, the tipsy Miller, the hypocritical Pardoner, the randy Wife of Bath, and other pilgrims trade stories on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Beckett at Canterbury.