The Decameron: Selected Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron: Selected Tales

Giovanni Boccaccio

360 pages first pub 1348 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced
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While the Black Death rages through fourteenth-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, ...

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