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The Decameron (The World's Classics)
The Decameron - The World's Classics
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido Waldman, Jonathan Usher
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a — dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid port...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192827128
ISBN-10: 019282712X
Publication Date: 9/2/1993
Pages: 752
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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