The Canterbury tales
By: by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, introduction by Louis Untermeyer ...
Contributors: Skeat, Walter W. 1835-1912 ed.
Series: The modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern library
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry.; Tales, Medieval.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Chaucer's work begins at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, where a group of pilgrims have assembled on their way to Canterbury. Harry Bailly, the innkeeper, suggests a contest: whoever tells the best tale will win a supper when they reach Canterbury.