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TALES FROM CHAUCER
TOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
BY CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE

Tales from Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer:

selected tales told for young people

by Charles Cowden Clarke

and illustrated with miniatures

by Arthur Szyk

The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf

[New York: The Heritage Press]

[1947]

Text originally published London: Effington Wilson [1833]

Scanned, proofed, and formatted at sacred-texts.com, July 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923. The 1947 edition artwork is in the US public domain because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion.

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