Which work is Geoffrey Chaucer's great work, known for a frame narrative?

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A frame narrative is a story that provides an outer setting in which multiple other stories are told. Geoffrey Chaucer’s great work uses this structure: a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury share tales to pass the time, and the travelers’ journeys knit the inner stories into a single collection. This framing lets Chaucer present a wide range of voices and social types from medieval England, making the work a rich cross-section of the era. The other titles are famous works by different authors and do not employ this same outer frame that links a set of embedded tales together.