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A framed collection presents a group of travelers exchanging stories on a religious journey, introduced by a general prologue that sketches their social types; the linked tales range across chivalric romance, bawdy comedy, moral exempla, sermon-like pieces, allegorical dream-visions and lyric fragments, producing a varied chorus of voices and social observation. The volume also gathers several standalone poems that meditate on love, fame and classical subjects, and the edition offers modernized spelling, editorial notes and flags where authorship or attribution is uncertain.

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Title: The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Editor: David Laing Purves

Release date: November 1, 2000 [eBook #2383]
Most recently updated: December 6, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Donal O’Danachair

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The Canterbury Tales

and Other Poems

of Geoffrey Chaucer

Edited for Popular Perusal
by
D. Laing Purves