Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Stories from the Pentamerone

Giambattista Basile

132 pages first pub 1636 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy adventurous medium-paced
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It is an old saying, that he who seeks what he should not, finds what he would not. Everyone has heard of the ape who, in trying to pull on his boots, was caught by the foot. And it happened in like manner to a wretched slave, who, although she ne...

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