This book is a retelling of select stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in prose form. Chaucer's original work, written in Middle English in the late 1300s, is considered a masterpiece of English literature and has been translated and adapted in many ways over the centuries. Charles Cowden Clarke was a Victorian-era literary critic and writer who sought to make Chaucer's work more accessible to a wider audience.

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