Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales, written during 1387-1400, first published in England in 1476 by William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491), is a body of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400), conceived of as related by a small company of pilgrims from London to the shrine of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. They started from the Tabard Inn at Southwark, and agreed to tell each a tale going and each another coming back, the author of the best tale to be treated with a supper. None of the tales on the homeward journey are given.

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