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The Canterbury Tales
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An anthology of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400, framed as tales told by a company of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury Cathedral. Spanning genres from courtly romance to fabliau and drawing its narrators from across medieval English society, it is considered one of the founding works of English literature and a major influence on the development of English as a literary language.
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1. The Canterbury Tales (Wikipedia)
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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
1. The Canterbury Tales (Wikipedia)
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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
1. The Canterbury Tales (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIn Genre: Frame Tale Collection, Lead section, frame narrativeQuote, In Genre: Frame Tale Collection, Lead section, frame narrative
framed as tales told by a company of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury Cathedral
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