# The Canterbury Tales

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- Book: [The Canterbury Tales](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-chaucer/the-canterbury-tales) ([The Canterbury Tales.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-chaucer/the-canterbury-tales.md))
- Authors: [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-chaucer), [Geraldine McCaughrean](https://www.bookquiver.com/geraldine-mccaughrean)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-234-4
- Pages: 1328
- Published: 2005-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.