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The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

By Geoffrey Chaucer

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Cover: Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims (1810), engraving by William Blake (1757-1827) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1827)

A company of pilgrims riding from London to Canterbury pass the road with a storytelling contest, and the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner and the rest each tell a tale that gives them away. This edition, with Chaucer's spelling and a gloss in the margin, adds his dream poems and Troilus and Cressida.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Canterbury Tales
  2. 2: The Knight’s Tale <1>
  3. 3: The Miller’s Tale
  4. 4: The Reeve’s Tale
  5. 5: The Cook’s Tale
  6. 6: The Man of Law’s Tale
  7. 7: The Wife of Bath’s Tale
  8. 8: The Friar’s Tale
  9. 9: The Sompnour’s Tale
  10. 10: The Clerk’s Tale
  11. 11: The Merchant’s Tale
  12. 12: The Squire’s Tale
  13. 13: The Franklin’s Tale
  14. 14: The Doctor’s Tale
  15. 15: The Pardoner’s Tale
  16. 16: The Shipman’s Tale.<1>
  17. 17: The Prioress’s Tale
  18. 18: Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas
  19. 19: Chaucer’s Tale of Melibœus
  20. 20: The Monk’s Tale
  21. 21: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
  22. 22: The Second Nun’s Tale <1>
  23. 23: The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale. <1>
  24. 24: The Manciple’s Tale
  25. 25: The Parson’s Tale
  26. 26: The Court of Love
  27. 27: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
  28. 28: The Assembly of Fowls
  29. 29: The Flower and the Leaf
  30. 30: The House of Fame
  31. 31: Troilus and Cressida
  32. 32: The First Book
  33. 33: The Second Book
  34. 34: The Third Book
  35. 35: The Fourth Book
  36. 36: The Fifth Book
  37. 37: Chaucer’s Dream
  38. 38: The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women