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The Canterbury Tales in bite-sized chunks. Part 6

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 31 Jul 19

Here are the final five 100-word Canterbury Tales: Nun’s Priest’s Tale Chauntecleer the cockerel has a long debate with Pertelote, one of his hens, about the power of dreams and how they can be portents of disaster, with...

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The Canterbury Tales in bite-sized chunks. Part 5

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 31 Jul 19

Prioress’s Tale A young Christian boy has to walk through the Jewish quarter on his way to school. As he walks he sings a Christian hymn that so annoys the Jews that they murder him and throw his body into a cesspit. His...

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The Canterbury Tales in bite-sized chunks. Part 4

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 31 Jul 19

Here are four more of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, each reduced to 100 words: Franklin’s Tale The lady Dorigen fears that her husband Arviragus will be shipwrecked on the Brittany rocks when he returns to her...

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The Canterbury Tales in bite-sized chunks. Part 3

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 31 Jul 19

Here are four more of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, each reduced to 100 words: Summoner’s Tale A friar visits Thomas and his wife, who have recently lost their child. Thomas is lying on a couch. He complains that they have...

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The Canterbury Tales in bite-sized chunks. Part 1

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 31 Jul 19

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales take a bit of reading, even in a modern translation. However, the gist can be whittled down to only 100 words per Tale. Here is the Prologue, plus the first three tales. Prologue Farewell March,...

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The Miller's Tale in exactly 100 words

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 28 Feb 18

Are Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales too long-winded for you? Would you prefer them to be a bit shorter? Here is a 100-word version of the second of the Tales, a bawdy romp that is told by the Miller: Elderly carpenter John...

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Chaucer's Knight's Tale - the compact version

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 24 Feb 18

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were the first great work of English Literature, but some of them do go on a bit. However, each Tale can be told in exactly 100 words. Here is my compressed version of the Knight's Tale, which is...

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Salvation, Do We Need to Be Saved?

Chiang_Mai_boy @Chiang_Mai_boy (3882) • Thailand 21 Nov 08

Salvation raises a lot of questions. The first one is what do we need to be saved from? Is it sin? If it is then just what is sin? Sin is usually described as a transgression of God's law so where do we find God's law? If...

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Everybody's got a story

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

It's the Canterbury Tales...

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Dinner with History

jennybeans @jennybeans (912) • United States 7 Feb 07

If you could sit down and have dinner with anyone from the past, who would it be and why? I'd like to sit down and have dinner with Geoffrey Chaucer to find out why he retracted his work at the end of the Canterbury Tales.

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