anterbury ales

The Wonderland Society is proud to present to you a full presentation of the HTML-formatted text of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

In order to avoid copyright infringments, etc, annotations and explications are entirely left off the text; the works herein contain only Chaucer's words. If you are interested in such material, we suggest you purchase one of the many excellent texts on these works. However we have found that with few exceptions the glossary is more distracting than helpful.

Here is a list of everything available. For tales in multiple parts, the links go to the first part:

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