Cantebruy-Tales.net features information about the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, including online text and summaries of the tales

Canterbury Tales

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

Canterbury Tales
Canterbury 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 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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