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Contemporary Literature Press announces the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales. Povestirile din Canterbury. The General Prologue. Prologul. ISBN 978-606-8592-43-5 The Miller’s Tale. Povestirea Morarului. ISBN 978-606-760-042-1 Translated into Romanian by Dan Duţescu. Parallel Texts: Middle English, Modern English and Romanian.   Edited by George Sandulescu and Lidia Vianu.       We are publishing Chaucer for two reasons. One reason is a literary one; the other one is more technical in character.       Chaucer is the first English writer. As his writing is hundreds of years older than Shakespeare’s, it is not very easy to read. But it deserves it more than one expects. Try it, and you will see.       The more technical reason is the translator. It is difficult to find somebody who would undertake this task. Well, Dan Duţescu, Leviţchi’s equal and friend, set himself the task of translating t...