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You will love this if you enjoy watching people, sharp humor, and stories of love, rivalry, trickery and faith. Cooks, knights, merchants, nuns and rogues all speak for themselves.
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Pilgrims meet at an inn in Southwark one April evening, and the innkeeper makes a proposal. Each traveler will tell stories on the road to Canterbury, and the best storyteller will win a supper. That small idea drives one of the liveliest story collections in English.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the last years of his life and died in 1400. This book gathers the Tales with his dream visions, his Troilus and Cressida and his prayers. You meet the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner and a boastful rooster, and you learn how to listen to it all.
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- 1Chaucer joined two languages into one voiceFree
- 2A spring journey to Canterbury frames every tale
- 3The portraits show every rank of English life
- 4Two knights quarrel over one lady in Athens
- 5Rough comedies answer each other on the road
- 6Marriage is argued from many sides at once
- 7Churchmen and their greed come under fire
- 8Saints, fables and falling kings fill the road
- 9Dream poems turn love into debate and landscape
- 10Short poems and prayers close with humility
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Chaucer joined two languages into one voice
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London around 1328. He grew up in a country with two languages. Common people spoke English, while nobles and scholars leaned on French. Chaucer knew both worlds and chose to write in English.
He served in the army of Edward the Third in France in 1359 and was taken prisoner, then freed when the peace of 1360 was made. He travelled to Genoa and Florence on royal business and came to know the Italian poets Dante and Petrarch through their books. From 1374 he worked as Controller of Customs at the port of London, checking the wool trade.
Those jobs gave him a close view of merchants, sailors, priests and knights. That view fills his best verse. He wrote about people he had watched in counting houses, ports and courts. He died on October 25, 1400, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Chaucer made English a poetic language by listening to everyone who spoke it.
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Who’s who
- Geoffrey Chaucer, the pilgrim
- The observant narrator joins the travellers at the Tabard Inn and describes his companions with quiet humour.
- Harry Bailly, the Host
- The cheerful innkeeper proposes the storytelling contest and serves as the pilgrims’ guide and judge.
- The Knight
- A modest, experienced soldier among the pilgrims, he tells the company a romance set in ancient Athens.
- The Wife of Bath
- A prosperous cloth maker with five past husbands, she challenges the other pilgrims’ assumptions about marriage.
- The Miller
- A burly, drunken pilgrim, he interrupts the planned order and answers the Knight with a bawdy tale.
- The Pardoner
- A seller of pardons and fraudulent relics, he admits his dishonesty while preaching to his companions against greed.
- The Prioress
- A nun named Madame Eglentyne, she stands among the pilgrims through her polished manners and tender feelings.
- The Clerk of Oxford
- A poor scholar devoted to learning, he contributes a tale of patience to the company’s debate about marriage.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 252,300 words
- Reading timeAbout 17 h 40 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 12 other languages
Questions about Los cuentos de Canterbury y otros poemas
What is The Canterbury Tales about?
It follows about thirty pilgrims riding from a Southwark inn to the shrine at Canterbury. To pass the time, each agrees to tell tales, and the best storyteller wins a supper. The tales range from chivalry to comedy to sermons.
Who are the main pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?
They include the Knight, the Squire, the Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Wife of Bath, the Miller, the Reeve, the Pardoner and the Parson, with the Host Harry Bailly as leader and judge of the contest.
Did Chaucer finish The Canterbury Tales?
No. Chaucer planned about 120 tales, four for each pilgrim, but only twenty-three survive. The work has no return journey and no scenes at Canterbury, yet its frame and portraits make it satisfying on its own.
Is The Canterbury Tales easy to follow?
Each tale stands on its own, with clear characters, lively speech and a simple plot. The framing story links them, and the narrator describes the pilgrims in the Prologue, so you can start almost anywhere and enjoy it.
What are the other poems in this book?
Alongside the Tales are dream visions and courtly poems such as The Court of Love, The Assembly of Fowls, The House of Fame and Troilus and Cressida, plus a prayer to the Virgin and short ballads.
Cite this edition
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-canterbury-tales-and-other-poems.
Geoffrey Chaucer. (2026). The Canterbury tales, and other poems. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-canterbury-tales-and-other-poems
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-canterbury-tales-and-other-poems.
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