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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400

Original text in Middle English.

Thirty strangers on the same road tell each other stories to win a dinner.

Poetry · 48 parts · about 185 000 words · about 13 h 23 of reading

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Contents

  1. THE CANTERBURY TALES29 min
  2. THE KNIGHTES TALE1 h 15
  3. THE MILLER’S PROLOGUE3 min
  4. THE MILLERES TALE22 min
  5. THE REEVE’S PROLOGUE2 min
  6. THE REVES TALE14 min
  7. THE COOK’S PROLOGUE1 min
  8. THE COKES TALE2 min
  9. INTRODUCTION TO THE MAN OF LAW’S PROLOGUE4 min
  10. THE TALE OF THE MAN OF LAWE34 min
  11. THE SHIPMAN’S PROLOGUE1 min
  12. THE SHIPMANNES TALE15 min
  13. THE PRIORESS’S PROLOGUE1 min
  14. THE PRIORESSES TALE8 min
  15. PROLOGUE TO SIR THOPAS1 min
  16. SIR THOPAS5 min
  17. PROLOGUE TO MELIBEUS2 min
  18. THE TALE OF MELIBEUS1 h 18
  19. THE MONK’S PROLOGUE3 min
  20. THE MONKES TALE26 min
  21. THE PROLOGUE OF THE NONNE PRESTES TALE2 min
  22. THE NONNE PREESTES TALE21 min
  23. EPILOGUE TO THE NONNE PREESTES TALE1 min
  24. THE PHISICIENS TALE10 min
  25. WORDS OF THE HOST2 min
  26. THE PROLOGUE OF THE PARDONERS TALE5 min
  27. THE PARDONERS TALE17 min
  28. THE WIFE OF BATH’S PROLOGUE29 min
  29. THE TALE OF THE WYF OF BATHE14 min
  30. THE FRIAR’S PROLOGUE1 min
  31. THE FRERES TALE13 min
  32. THE SOMNOUR’S PROLOGUE2 min
  33. THE SOMNOURS TALE20 min
  34. THE CLERK’S PROLOGUE2 min
  35. THE CLERKES TALE39 min
  36. THE MERCHANT’S PROLOGUE1 min
  37. THE MARCHANTES TALE40 min
  38. EPILOGUE TO THE MARCHANTES TALE1 min
  39. THE SQUIERES TALE24 min
  40. THE FRANKLIN’S PROLOGUE1 min
  41. THE FRANKELEYNS TALE30 min
  42. THE SECONDE NONNES TALE19 min
  43. THE CANON’S YEOMAN’S PROLOGUE6 min
  44. THE CHANOUNS YEMANNES TALE26 min
  45. THE MANCIPLE’S PROLOGUE4 min
  46. THE MAUNCIPLES TALE9 min
  47. THE PARSON’S PROLOGUE2 min
  48. THE PERSONES TALE2 h 18

About this text

Geoffrey Chaucer († 1400): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 22120). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

Note on the edition (in French): Texte établi par W. W. Skeat (The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. IV, Oxford, 1894), en moyen anglais ; sans les numéros de vers, les variantes ni les notes de l'éditeur, et sans The Tale of Gamelyn, que Skeat imprime à la suite sans l'attribuer à Chaucer.

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