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The Wife of Bath's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated by: Peggy Ashcroft
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The best known of Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales, read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft. After a prologue, in which the Wife of Bath mentions that she would welcome another husband - who would be her sixth - and that she pursues power over her husbands, she tells a tale about a knight who must marry....

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Doesn’t start at the beginning

Don’t know why but this is not the full text. Feel a bit ripped off.

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