Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, wrote The Canterbury Tales , a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. If we trust the Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised.
Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales.
As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts. Librarius Links is a non-exhaustive list of hyperlinks which is meant to help students and scholars find resources about The Canterbury Tales and Geoffrey Chaucer on the Internet. New links are reviewed and added regularly.