Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales

Edited by Walter W. Skeat

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"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.

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