Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times Librarius Links Biographies , bibliographies , background information and essays. Selectable sources for further study on Geoffrey Chaucer. 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. The Canterbury Tales Selectable tales with an extensive hypertext glossary. Librarius Bookshop Printed versions of The Canterbury Tales for sale. Librarius Links Bibliographies , background information, summaries, audio files and essays. Selectable sources for further study on The Canterbury Tales .