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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Not bad, I spose. But I should have read the modern translation instead of trying to struggle through the Middle English version, which is just close enough to modern English to be readable, but far enough away to require footnotes every five words just to help the reader figure out what the hell they just read. After twenty pages or so, this got very, very old.

Read for: Early British Literature
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Finished Reading
October 4, 2008 – Shelved
October 4, 2008 – Shelved as: poetry
March 24, 2009 – Shelved as: assigned-reading

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