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The Decameron (Penguin Classics Ser.)
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The Decameron (Penguin Classics Ser.) Mass market paperback - 1983

by Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G. H. (translator)

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  • very good
  • Paperback

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1983. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Mass Market.
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  • Title The Decameron (Penguin Classics Ser.)
  • Author Boccaccio, Giovanni; McWilliam, G. H. (translator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 848
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • Date 1983
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0840853
  • ISBN 9780140442694 / 0140442693
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.06 x 1.41 in (19.79 x 12.85 x 3.58 cm)
  • Reading level 1500
  • Library of Congress subjects Allegories, Storytelling - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 73150738
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.

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