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The Decameron (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2003
by Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G. H. [Editor]; McWilliam, G. H. [Translator]; McWilliam, G. H. [Introduction];
- New
- Paperback
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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Details
- Title The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
- Author Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G. H. [Editor]; McWilliam, G. H. [Translator]; McWilliam, G. H. [Introduction];
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Condition New
- Pages 1072
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, London
- Date 2003-04-29
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140449302_new
- ISBN 9780140449303 / 0140449302
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.1 x 1.84 in (19.76 x 12.95 x 4.67 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Storytelling, Allegories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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 clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition, which also includes additional explanatory notes, maps, bibliography and indexes, Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he is—one of the world's greatest masters of vivid and exciting prose fiction.