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A collection of tales from the 14th century. The literary device is that a group of travelers are going to Canterbury together and regale each other with stories to pass the time. Some were humorous and others were so banal that I swear my brain was bleeding. The last tale, especially, fell into this category and I wonder if Chaucer had to put it there to avoid persecution from religious fanatics.
While I'm glad I finally got this read as it's been on my list for several years, it was so difficult to read that I had to check sparknotes to figure out what I had just read. I'm wondering if I should have read sparknotes first ... then I might have better understood what I was reading. There were some very interesting things. It just didn't really capture me as a whole.
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