# The Canterbury Tales

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- Book: [The Canterbury Tales](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd/the-canterbury-tales) ([The Canterbury Tales.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd/the-canterbury-tales.md))
- Authors: [Peter Ackroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd), [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-chaucer), [Ted Stearn](https://www.bookquiver.com/ted-stearn)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-438-6
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.