A teacher told me recently; it's (and I give an exact number only in estimation) 17,534 lines. Definitely in the 17,000s.
Canterbury Tales mass market paperback has 400 pages. It is by Geoffrey Chaucer. The
CreateSpace version has 456 pages.
There are two women pilgrims in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": the Wife of Bath and the Prioress.
There are 26 poems known in the Canterbury Tales. Though, it is hard to be certain, there are many parts that are fragmented and it is not known if they were meant to be published or if they weren\'t finished.
In the General Prologue of "The Canterbury Tales," each character is supposed to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back, making it a total of four tales per person.
Chaucer had originally intended for his work, The Canterbury Tales, to be filled with 124 tales, all in verse but two. However, Chaucer only completed 22 tales, with two being started but not finished.
The plowman's brother in The Canterbury Tales is the Parson. He is a devout and virtuous character who follows the teachings of the Bible closely, and his simplicity and integrity offer a stark contrast to the corruption and greed depicted in many of the other characters in the tales.
Each pilgrim will tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two more on the road home. Chaucer never finished his poem - so in the fragments we have no pilgrim tells more than one tale (and some never get to speak at all).
In Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," there were 29 pilgrims who met at the Tabard Inn in Southwark before embarking on their journey to Canterbury.
Im not quite sure but he wrote the Canterbury tales, a story book. :)
No. He died before he was able to finish writing all the tales.
Geoffrey Chaucer may not have completed "The Canterbury Tales" because of his death in 1400 and the ambitious scope of the project, which he worked on over many years. The work remains unfinished, with some planned stories left untold.
Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for writing "The Canterbury Tales," a collection of 24 stories that showcase various aspects of medieval life in England. While he wrote other works as well, "The Canterbury Tales" is his most famous and enduring work.
The Prioress, or Madame Eglantine, is a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." She is described as elegant, sentimental, and well-mannered. Despite her refined appearance, she is also portrayed as being overly concerned with appearances and overly sentimental.