Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales is 237,825 words — about 15h 51m at 250 words per minute, across 4 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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GROUP B. INTRODUCTION TO THE MAN OF LAW’S PROLOGUE MAN OF LAW’S PROLOGUE THE TALE OF THE MAN OF LAWE THE SHIPMAN’S PROLOGUE THE SHIPMANNES TALE THE PRIORESS’S PROLOGUE THE PRIORESSES TALE PROLOGUE TO SIR THOPAS SIR THOPAS PROLOGUE TO MELIBEUS THE TALE OF MELIBEUS THE MONK’S PROLOGUE THE MONKES TALE:—Lucifer; Adam; Sampson; Hercules; Nabugodonosor; Balthasar; Cenobia; De Petro Rege Ispannie; De Petro Rege De Cipro; De…
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- AuthorGeoffrey Chaucer
- SourceProject Gutenberg #22120
- Length237,825 words · 15h 51m of reading
- Chapters4
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
4 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01BY THE
- 02THE CANTERBURY TALES: TEXT
- 03M DCCCC
- 04THE CANTERBURY TALES
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