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Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron - 9781840221336 - V9781840221336
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Decameron

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Description for Decameron Paperback. Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Translator(s): Payne, John. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 51. Weight in Grams: 548.

A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain.

1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce.

Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we ... Read more

Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride - and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation.

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Product Details

Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840221336
SKU
V9781840221336
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-31

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