Legend

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

A company of pilgrims riding to Canterbury agrees to tell stories on the way, with a free supper as the prize. Knights, millers, nuns and the much-married Wife of Bath all speak in their own voices, some of them rudely. Read it aloud if you can; it was made to be heard.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 18 hr 30 min

Where to find it

On the Legend shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2383. In the public domain in the United States.