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This Canon Classic contains all twenty-four extant Canterbury Tales carefully and modernized by J.U.

His company of priests, tradesmen, nuns, monks, scholars, and knights that tell stories on the way to Canterbury is full of drama, farce, shrewd cynicism, and that highly inappropriate sense of humor for which the English are so well known. The poet Geoffrey Chaucer writes about both the pious and the irreverent and roguish. In the middle ages, hundreds of pilgrims would flock to the shrine of Thomas Beckett to pay their respects and get a few years off of purgatory-or perhaps to simply enjoy themselves. Because long trips tend to be rather dull, the travelers begin a storytelling competition featuring roosters, murders, bewitched hags, banished wives in barrels, plenty of adulterers, a whole host of churchmen, and a frying pan whisked to hell.' ~From Elizabeth Howard's Introduction 'Spring has arrived, prompting folks from all stations of medieval life to pilgrimage together to the shrine of Thomas Becket. ' is not only the father of all our poets, but the grandfather of all our hundred million novelists.' -G.K. Chesterton

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