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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
143 p. : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas �a Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low...