Decameron

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Giovanni Boccaccio ISBN: 9780307773630
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: November 3, 2010
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
ISBN: 9780307773630
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: November 3, 2010
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him.

J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature.

A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.”

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In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him.

J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature.

A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.”

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