Chaucer died before he could begin the....... Tale
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Geoffrey Chaucer spent over a decade writing The Canterbury Tales, from the late 1380s until his death in 1400. His original plan was to write over 100 stories as part of the collection of ''tales'' but only wrote 24. Even the manuscript that Chaucer wrote was not completely edited before he died; many versions came about after Chaucer's original manuscript emerged that aimed to complete some of the fragments. It is for this reason that there are several versions and sometimes the stories are not in the same order.
The collection of stories is framed by a larger narrative beginning at the Tabard Inn, where thirty people gather before embarking on a pilgrimage. The inn's owner proposes that the pilgrims start a storytelling contest. The guidelines are that each of the thirty people should tell two stories on the way to Canterbury Cathedral and two each on the way back. This would have totaled 120 stories, but Chaucer had only written twenty-four when he died. Chaucer's death also prevented him from resuming the framing device at the end of the pilgrims' journey; we do not find out who won the storytelling contest as the reader might have expected from a fully framed narrative.