Canterbury Tales

This is an online edition of the Canterbury Tales, with illustrations and explanatory texts and glossary.

Cantebury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The framing device is that a group of pilgrims, including Chaucer, are travelling ffrom London to Canterbury on a religious pilgrimage. On their way, the travellers tell each other stories to entertain each other.

The Canterbury Tales are considered a literary classic and one of the finest works written in Middle English. It is difficult for modern readers to understand Middle English, so this website offers a side by side translation as well as a dictionary of Middle English words. The text of the Cantebury Tales presented here is illustrated by numerous medieval woodcuts and illustrations.

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The Tellers of the Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales

The Tellers of the Canterbury Tales