1. Jefri Choser The Canterbury Tales are the writing style and sources of the work

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Theme:
Literature of the 14th century (Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400) 
"The Canterbury Tales " 
Plan: 
INTRODUCTION 
1.Jefri Choser 
2.The Canterbury Tales are the writing style and sources of the work. 
2.The Canterbury Tales are the writing style and sources of the work. 
4.Historical context and themes 
CONCLUSION 
LITERATURE USED 

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INTRODUCTION 
Relevance of the topic. Tales of Caunterbury () is a collection of twenty-four 
stories of 17,000 lines written in English from 1387-1400 by Geoffrey Chaucer. 
Opus. Fairy tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented 
by a group of pilgrims as part of their choice to travel around the world to visit the 
shrine of St. Thomas Becket from London to Canterbury. Canterbury Cathedral. The 
prize of this competition is a free meal at the Tabard Inn Hotel in Southwark on its 
return.
The greatest contribution of the" Canterbury Tales " to English literature was 
the growing popularity of English in mainstream literature, as opposed to French, 
Italian or Latin. However, English was used as a literary language several centuries 
before Chaucer's time, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries - John Gower, 
William Lengland, the Pearl poet, and Julian of Norwich-also wrote major literary 
works in English. It is unclear how important Chaucer was in this evolution of 
literary preference.
Canterbury Tales are generally considered incomplete towards the end of 
Choser's life. The general prologue introduces about 30 pilgrims. According to the 
preface, Choser's aim was to write four stories from the point of view of each 
pilgrim, each on the way to and from the shrine of St. Thomas Beckett, their last 
destination (totalling around 120 stories). Although incomplete, Canterbury Tales 
are revered as one of the most important works in English literature.
The question of whether” Canterbury Tales " is a completed work has not been 
answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 
1500) editions of the work, more than any other English-language literary text. This 
comparison should not be taken as an indication of Thales 'popularity in the century 
after Chaucer's death, as it is unfair to consider that, according to Derek Pearsall, 
"Prik of conscience" has all the advantages of "maintaining a dogmatic religious 
theme". Fifty-five of these manuscripts were originally completed, and twenty-eight 

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are so fragmentary that it is difficult to determine whether they were individually 
copied or copied as part of the collection. Fairy tales differ from manuscript to 
manuscript in both minor and fundamental ways; many of the minor changes are 
attributed to copyists ' errors, while in other cases it is assumed that Choser revised 
his work as well, when it was being copied, but not distributed.