Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1343?-1400
"Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories written chiefly from 1387 to 1400. A group of pilgrims embarks on a journey to Canterbury, each intending to tell two tales on the way there and two returning. Chaucer completed fewer than a quarter of these projected tales before his death. The stories' intended order remains uncertain, with various manuscripts presenting different arrangements of this unfinished medieval masterpiece. ... Read more
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| Author | Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912 |
| Title | Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_The_Canterbury_Tales |
| Credits | by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net Revised by Richard Tonsing. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 84.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | Middle English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 22120 |
| Release Date | Jul 22, 2007 |
| Last Update | Apr 30, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
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