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Selected Canterbury Tales

 

Canterbury Tales, Selected

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated By : David Butler

In Audio

Runtime : 9 hours 8 minutes

Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
Classics

Price : $74.95 $59.50

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On an April day, a group of English pilgrims meet outside the Tabard Inn and are joined by the innkeeper, just outside London. They set out on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury to pay their respects to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

The group is described in detail, with characters from all classes, upper and lower, represented. Religious characters, such as a prioress, monk and a Pardoner, travel alongside a shipman, miller, carpenter, reeve, squire, yeoman and a knight, among others.

Harry Bailey, the innkeeper, suggests that as a game they all tell stories to each other along the way. The pilgrims agree to tell four stories each, two on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back. The person who tells the best story, as determined by the host, will have his supper paid for by the rest of the group.

The tale-telling begins with the knight and proceeds as the pilgrims near Canterbury, each person telling a story that reflects their social position, and some telling stories which are intended to make fun of others in the group. No winner is chosen by the host in the end, and not all of the pilgrims have told their tales by the time the story ends.

Chaucer adds to the work a retraction apologizing for anything written which may have offended.

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