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The 100 best books of all time

How many of these "100 best books of all time" have you read?

59. 'The Canterbury Tales,' by Geoffrey Chaucer

"The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories supposedly shared by pilgrims who are traveling together and having a competition to see who can tell the best tale. Geoffrey Chaucer 鈥 the author, who was also a 14th-century philosopher, alchemist, astronomer, bureaucrat, courtier, and diplomat 鈥  infuses several of the tales with a spirit of satire. Chaucer is sometimes known as the father of English literature. 

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