canterbury tales
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John Welford
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• 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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John Welford
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• 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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John Welford
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• 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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John Welford
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• 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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John Welford
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• 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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Chiang_Mai_boy
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• 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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