Editing The Canterbury Tales (section)

===Books===
* The most well-known work of the 18th century writer [[Harriet Lee (writer)|Harriet Lee]] was called ''The Canterbury Tales'', and consists of twelve stories, related by travellers thrown together by untoward accident. In turn, Lee's version had a profound influence on [[Lord Byron]].
* [[E. Nesbit]]'s 1901 book ''[[The Wouldbegoods]]'' includes an episode where the children protagonists re-enact the pilgrimage, taking on some of the character roles.
* [[Henry Dudeney]]'s 1907 book ''[[The Canterbury Puzzles]]'' contains a part reputedly lost from what modern readers know as Chaucer's tales.
* Historical-mystery novelist [[P.C. Doherty]] wrote a series of novels based on ''The Canterbury Tales'', making use of both the story frame and Chaucer's characters.
* Science-fiction writer [[Dan Simmons]] wrote his [[Hugo Award]] winning 1989 novel ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' based on an extra-planetary group of pilgrims.
* Evolutionary biologist [[Richard Dawkins]] used ''The Canterbury Tales'' as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about [[evolution]] titled ''[[The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution]]''. His animal pilgrims are on their way to find the common ancestor, each telling a tale about evolution.
* Canadian author [[Angie Abdou]] translates ''The Canterbury Tales'' to a cross section of people, all snow-sports enthusiasts but from different social backgrounds, converging on a remote back-country ski cabin in British Columbia in the 2011 novel ''The Canterbury Trail''.
* British poet and performer [[Patience Agbabi]] is one of fourteen authors who worked together to tell the stories and experiences of refugees, detainees, and asylum seekers in a book titled [https://www.refugeetales.org/books Refugee Tales]. The collaborative efforts of the writers and displaced people create stories modeled after Chaucer's tale of journey in The Canterbury Tales. This project is rooted in the efforts of the [https://www.gdwg.org.uk Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group], a non-partisan advocacy group for detained people.