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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 The best historical fiction novels 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…
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