Henry Ernest Dudeney's *The Canterbury Puzzles and Other Curious Problems* unites recreational mathematics with the narrative architecture of Chaucer's pilgrimage. Its problems-spanning arithmetic, geometry, dissections, logic, combinatorics, and ingenious verbal or spatial conundrums-are presented through a succession of travelers whose contests and conversations give the collection dramatic continuity. Dudeney's prose is lucid, playful, and often theatrical, yet the solutions demand genuine mathematical insight: readers must discover structure, test conjecture, and distinguish elegant reasoning from mere calculation. The volume belongs to the late-Victorian and Edwardian tradition of mathematical miscellanies, while anticipating modern puzzle culture and popular mathematical exposition. Dudeney (1857-1930), one of Britain's most influential creators of recreational mathematics, wrote under the celebrated "Sphinx" persona and contributed puzzles to newspapers and periodicals before gathering them in book form. His work reflects an era fascinated by self-education, rational amusement, and the possibility that mathematical thought could be cultivated outside formal institutions. By adapting Chaucer's familiar literary world, he makes abstract problems socially vivid and connects contemporary ingenuity with an enduring English narrative tradition. This book is recommended to readers who enjoy mathematics as both an intellectual discipline and an art of invention. It rewards patient solitary solving, lively discussion, and rereading, since its charm lies not only in the answers but in the unexpected paths leading to them. Students, historians of popular science, puzzle enthusiasts, and admirers of literary framing will find it an exceptionally rich and enduring collection.