Canterbury Tales, a collection of twenty-four stories, all but two of adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich are in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich between 1386 and his death in 1400. The adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich are supposed to be related by members of a adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich of thirty-one pilgrims (including the poet himself) who are adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich their way to the adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich of St. Thomas at Canterbury. The prologue which tells of their adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and their arrangement that each shall adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich two stories on the way to Canterbury and two adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich the return journey, is a remarkable picture of English adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich life in the fourteenth century, inasmuch as every adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich is represented from the gentlefolks to the peasantry. The transitional adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich between the stories, exhibiting the incidents of the journey, the adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich of the tales on the company, the outbreaks of adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich or professional jealousy among the pilgrims, are extremely entertaining and dramatic, the host, who presides adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich the proceedings, being an especially lifelike figure. The narrative is not adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich. Gaps have been left between certain adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich of the journey for Chaucer did not live to fill adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich the vast scheme he had outlined, and instead of the one hundred and twenty-four tales which it would require has left adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich twenty-four. Some of these, like the Knight’s Tale, and the Second Nun’s Tale were adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich works, others, like the Miller’s Tale, the Reeve’s Tale, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, and the Pardoner’s Tale, were written adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich for this collection and with its dramatic adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich in mind. The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale was adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich as an afterthought and involved the adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich in of two additional members of the company. Practically all the tales, old and new, are skillfully adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich to their tellers. The tales represent almost every type of mediæval adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich: the fabliau, the pious tale, the saints’ adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich, the sermon, the exemplum, the lay, the metrical adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich, and the romantic epic. They are masterpieces of narrative art, adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich the author’s close observation of men and women, his adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich in the process, his ready human sympathy, and his adaptedassemblybackgroundbringingbutclasscompanycontinuousdelightearliereffectelusiveexpresslyintroducedlegendliteraturemainlynarrativesonoutoverpersonalrevealingromanceshrinesocialstagesstoriestellwhich humor.
(adapted from "The Reader’s Digest of Books" by Helen Rex Keller)