n nHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.n nFull wise is he that can himselven knowe.n nWritten at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to travel to a shrine in Canterbury and become the narrators, telling each other stories of chivalrous romance, fable, parable, debate and comedy as they journey. Their accounts of the human condition remain as resonant today as when they were first written.n