Chaucer's pilgrims meet at an inn, agree to a storytelling contest on the road to Canterbury, and produce a body of tales that swings from courtly romance to broad comedy.
The collection is built as a frame narrative: a knight, a miller, a prioress, a pardoner and the rest each take a turn, and the links between the stories let the tellers argue, interrupt and answer one another. Because the voices are so distinct, the book works well read in pieces rather than straight through, and individual tales such as the Wife of Bath's have long circulated on their own.
What the reading experience is like:
• A frame narrative carried by more than twenty pilgrim storytellers
• Tales that range across romance, fable, sermon and farce
• Prologues that connect each story to the one before it
• A cornerstone text for English literature syllabuses
Recommended for literature students and general readers approaching medieval English writing for the first time, available at Boipoka.
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