Status Updates From The Canterbury Tales

Nothing could have prepared for the amazing mock epic of the princely chicken Chauntecleer, whose "voys was murier than the murie orgon on messe-dayes that in the chirche gon". The climax of the story, with the barn animals on the loose, the fox on the hunt, and the swarm of bees in the air, has Chaucer showing off his high rhetoric blended with sheer kinetic energy. Definitely a high point in the Tales so far.

The Monk's Tale, a collection of 17 short tragedies of varying quality, from Lucifer to Caesar.