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The Canterbury Tales
By Brittany



	The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales was one of Chaucer’s most famous works. Although it was an unfinished piece of work, it included many stories over the 13 years it was worked on. It was wrote from 1387 to 1400. This book was collaborated by many authors, 30 to be exact, and is a good example of a frame narrative type of story. Thirty people travelled as pilgrims to Canterbury, England telling stories to each other to pass the time by quicker. The people came from all different types of backgrounds and all had many stories to tell. According to the General Prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer intended to have every person who joined him on his travels to Canterbury, to tell at least 2 tales on the way there and at least 2 on the way back. As you are aware, his idea was started but never finished as a result of his death. Although they had already several tales, not one of them were revised before made into a book. Because the printing press was not yet invented in Chaucer’s time, there were several handwritten manuscripts produced of The Canterbury Tales. There are many tales, however, the order in which they were printed may not be the correct order in which they were told.