The Canterbury Tales (Book) AKA Tales of Caunterbury
The Canterbury Tales
1386 AD - 1400 AD
AKA Tales of Caunterbury
Chaucer's magnum opus, a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English and presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
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Attachments
Canterbury Cathedra Viewedl from the north west c. 1890–1900 (retouched from a black & white photograph)
Title page of Canterbury Tales Possibly in the hand of his personal scribe Adam Pinkhurst
A Tale from the Decameron By John William Waterhouse
