Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales
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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
- Length241,959 words · 16h 08m of reading
- Chapters20
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
20 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
- 05INTRODUCTION
- 06And vndernethe he wered a surplys
- 07TO
- 08THE REEVE’S PROLOGUE
- 09THE PRIORESS’S PROLOGUE
- 10PROLOGUE TO SIR THOPAS.
- 11PROLOGUE TO MELIBEUS.
- 12THE PROLOGUE OF THE NONNE PRESTES TALE.
- 13EPILOGUE TO THE NONNE PREESTES TALE.
- 14THE PROLOGUE OF THE PARDONERS TALE.
- 15THE SOMNOUR’S PROLOGUE
- 16GROUP E
- 17EPILOGUE TO THE MARCHANTES TALE.
- 18THE CANON’S YEOMAN’S PROLOGUE
- 19GROUP H
- 20NOTES
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