The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer (audiobook)

About The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer (audiobook)

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400) in the 14th century (two of them are in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, are contained inside a frame tale and are told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes of the tales vary, from courtly love, to treachery.

Audio courtesy of Librivox.

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