A band of pilgrims are heading from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket and decide to pass the time by recounting amazing stories of love, adventure, crime and religion that have enchanted people for centuries.
Homer, John Bunyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Andrew Lang, Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb
Ovid, Virgil, Claudius, Julius Caesar, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Porcius Licinius, Gaius Maecenas, Numa Pompilius, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Tennyson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. W. Rolleston, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Wyatt, George MacDonald, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Thomas Love Peacock, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gilbert Parker, Brander Matthews, Arthur Quiller-Couch, H. W. Garrod, Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp, Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain, C. H. B. Kitchin, Alan Porter, Robert Graves, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes & A. C. Bradley