The Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucer's enduring look into medieval life. Aristocratic high life, working class ribaldry, and lowly common outlooks all mix in Chaucer's timelss tales. On thier pilgrimage to the Cathedral in Canterbury, a traveling party of mixed classes repeat tales of chivalry, honor, humor, and rawness. This spyglass into English life in the Middle Ages is edited by 19th Century literature professor D. Laing Purves and enriched by an introduction by contemporary historian J. W. Maxcey