"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...

Offers prose translations from four portions of Chaucer's classic poem relating the stories of a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury.