Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised.
If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 13. We also believe it is unfair to disregard the amount of work done by editors and writers. We believe in the free flow of knowledge on the Internet. Redistribution of texts or parts of texts is prohibited. Users are not allowed to download texts or parts of texts to store and redistribute them from their own server or another server.
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