Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
04/30/2019
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories by Geoffrey Chaucer written between 1387 and 1400. The frame story of a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury allows Chaucer to depict a cross-section of late feudal society through the pen-portraits of the travellers in the General Prologue.
The Tales may be incomplete, and although 30 pilgrims are introduced, only 24 tell a tale in the course of the narrative. Among the most famous is that of the Wife of Bath, whose implications for medieval views on women has long been debated.
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Gutenberg: The Canterbury Tales, edited by Walter Skeat. HTML, EPUB, Kindle and TXT formats.
Internet Archive: The Canterbury Tales, edited by Walter Skeat (1893). Oxford World's Classics edition. EPUB, MOBI, TXT and PDF formats.
Internet Archive: The Canterbury Tales, edited and modernised by Arthur Burrell (1909). Everyman's Library edition. HTML, EPUB, Kindle and TXT formats.
Internet Archive: The Canterbury Tales, Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions (2004). HTML, EPUB, Kindle and TXT formats.
University of Adelaide (Internet Archive): The Canterbury Tales, edited by Walter Skeat. | The Canterbury Tales, edited and modernised by Arthur Burrell. HTML, EPUB, TXT and Kindle formats.
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