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2 authors picked The Canterbury Tales as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A basketful of tales told by various storytellers on their religious pilgrimage. As Twain used the river and I as locations, this classic used the travelers to offer a varied yet united sequence focusing on saints and sinners.
I recommend this book because I am a storyteller and folks who like stories should enjoy these humorous, serious, and spicy tales from way back yon.
From Edward's list on historical fiction about the new American West.
I love this stupid, sexy mess of a book.
Oh, you think you know what the Canterbury Tales is about? No. You don’t. It’s about shagging in pear trees while your blind husband sits below you. It’s about weird non-binary people that your travelling companions don’t know what to make of. It’s about love and death and meaning and fart jokes. The Canterbury Tales is a brilliantly alive, deliciously bawdy, surprisingly disarming work that will help you understand what regular people in the Middle Ages wanted to read about.
For bonus points, get a hold of the Riverside Chaucer translation…
From Eleanor's list on illuminating the Middle Ages.
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