The Decameron
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In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical cle... More
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Publisher | Penguin Young Readers Group |
Binding | Mass Market Paperback (18 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 1072 |
ISBN-10 | 014044629X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0140446296 |
Publication Date | 02/01/1996 |
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About G. H. McWilliam (Editor, Introduction, Translator) : G. H. McWilliam is a published editor. Some of the published credits of G. H. McWilliam include The Decameron: Second Edition (Penguin Classics).
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