Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective: these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron --the inspiration for the new film The Little Hours --in a brilliant, playful new translation In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories--one hundred stories of love, adventure, and surprising twists of fortune that later inspired Chaucer, Keats, and Shakespeare. Now, this hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" (famously adapted by Keats) and "Patient Griselda" alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests, and curious nuns. Written in an early Florentine dialect and influencing scores of literature that followed, The Decameron is a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0141191333
ISBN-13
9780141191331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219191360

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tales from the Decameron
Author
Giovanni Boccaccio
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq4272.E5
Notes by
Hainsworth, Peter
Reviews
"The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), made a great impression on me. . . . Ten youths--seven women and three men--take turns telling stories for 10 days. At around the age of 16, I found it reassuring that Boccaccio, in conceiving his narrators, had made most of them women. Here was a great writer, the father of the modern story, presenting seven great female narrators. There was something to hope for. . . . The seven female narrators of the Decameron should never again need to rely on the great Giovanni Boccaccio to express themselves. . . . The female story, told with increasing skill, increasingly widespread and unapologetic, is what must now assume power." -- Elena Ferrante, The New York Times
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-478247
Dewey Decimal
853.1
Dewey Edition
23