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What is "The Canterbury Tales" about?

Good evening, I was wondering what is "The Canterbury Tales" about?

please be specific, it is for world literature class and i have a learning disability.

Thank you :)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    it's a collection of stories about a group of people on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. There are about forty something or so people in the group, of different social status and pasts. There are supposed to be one story for each person in the group, but the author died after writing stories for around six people of the group.

    it was mainly written to satirize the then-corrupt catholic church and the hypocritic noble class, and et cetera.

    Source(s): my head
  • Naomi
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    1 decade ago

    its like the arabian nights. the author is taking a pilgrimage and stops at an inn (all this is the story). The innkeeper throws a challenge to his customers: tell a good story. There are several characters, all bound for the same destination as the author; a knight and pardoner among others. They each tell a tale and the stories last all the way to Cantebury and back again. Its several stories within a story, like Scheherazade's stories within the story of her daily release from death.

    Further info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantebury_tales

    Hope that helped!

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  • 1 decade ago

    the author made the canterbury tales to describe each character in his story but he dead before he could write the story. For more info go to sparknotes

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