Canterbury Tales

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781775560159
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Poesie

Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is such a rollicking good read that you'll forget many critics and scholars also regard it as one of the most important literary works in English. A group of pilgrims are traveling together to visit a holy shrine at the Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way, they decide to hold a storytelling contest to pass the time, with the winner to be awarded a lavish feast on the return trip. The tales offered up in turn by each of the travelers run the full gamut of human emotion, ranging from raucous and ribald jokes to heartrending tales of doomed romance. Even if you don't consider yourself a fan of classic literature, The Canterbury Tales is worth a read.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Preface
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Prologue
• The Knight's Tale
• The Miller's Tale
• The Reeve's Tale
• The Cook's Tale
• The Man of Law's Tale
• The Wife of Bath's Tale
• The Friar's Tale
• The Sompnour's Tale
• The Clerk's Tale
• The Merchant's Tale
• The Squire's Tale
• The Franklin's Tale
• The Doctor's Tale
• The Pardoner's Tale
• The Shipman's Tale
• The Prioress's Tale
• Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
• Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus
• The Monk's Tale
• The Nun's Priest's Tale
• The Second Nun's Tale
• The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
• The Manciple's Tale
• The Parson's Tale
• Preces de Chauceres
• Endnotes