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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s poetic masterpiece, the work of a mature genius employing English literature’s most celebrated framing device: pilgrims engaging in a storytelling contest during their journey from London to the shrine of St Thomas Becket. The Prologue introduces the broad cast of characters, who regale the reader with tales spanning noble virtue and human frailty, laced with irreverent, bawdy humour.
