Five Canterbury Tales
STORY COLLECTIONS
Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
CEFR A1 — A2
Word count 5,203
In 1386 a number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way.
Who should be the stronger in a marriage – the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.
ISBN 9780194639361
