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canterbury tales

by harriet lee

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This story describes the adventures of 29 travelers who travel to Canterbury on a pilgrimage which happen in the 14th century. The company of the pilgrims consists of a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Their trip is quite dangerous and adventurous, often they lose their spirit and belief and have to support and entertain each other. Although Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales about five hundred years ago in the Middle-aged English, for those who want to read these stories and dive into their events there is a chance to find Canterbury Tales in the adaptation of Lee Harriet. Canterbury Tales are focused on such phenomena as love, sex, death, which are usual and interesting for all times and all people and which are described in a witty and entertaining way.

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...wants and ideas equally con- tra(5led to their fituation: nor had the two clafles any thing in common but that felfiih- nefs and inertnefs which is the general refult of ignorance. Frederick Kruitzner, for fo the flrangcr was called, and his unfortunate family, con- tinued, therefore, to languifli more than ten days, unnoticed by any body but their hoft ; who fo far concerned himfelf about their future fate, as, in the progrcfs of that time, to have made up his account that the faid Kruitzner fliould not die in his houfe 5 for which reafon he deemed it would be mod P 3 convenient 6 CANTERBURY TALES. convenient fpeedily to remove him from it. For reafons, doubtlefs, however, more mer- ciful and w^ife, Providence had decreed that Kruitzner fhould not at that critical period die at all : and though this convidion feem- cd to give but little fatisfadion to any hu- man beings, his v^ife and child excepted, it is probable that in the region of eternal bleflednefs which is to be occupied by...