Guest Editor's Introduction The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, a new translation from the Arabic with copious notes by Edward William Eane, Hon. M.R.S.E. etc., Author of 'The Modern Egyptian." Illustrated by many hundred engravings on...

Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400 without bringing his pilgrims to the goal of their pilgrimage, the city of Canterbury with its cathedral's relics of St. Thomas a Becket. Within a few decades, however, several anonymous fifteenth-century poets had contributed their own additions to...

In "The Pardoner's Tale" in "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer, irony is used to show the flaws of the pardoner himself, the characters in his story and--ultimately--humanity.

A discussion of paralles Universes and how the television show 'Sliders' is like 'A Simple Plan' and 'A Pardoner's Tale'.

Essay describes the satire and irony Geoffrey Chaucer uses in "The Pardoner's Tale."