What are the Cantubury Tales?

The Canterbury Tales is a variety of story's told by pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury. These included three characters who stayed at an inn at southwark with Geoffery Chaucer the writer and made a deal with the inn keeper. The inn keeper said that they were a great company at his inn and said that he would come on their journey with them. If they played a storytelling game. The person who told the best story would win a free night and food at the inn keepers inn. So the following characters told their story's to the judge and encountered new comers on the way to join their game.