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Title details for The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio - Available

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio
J. M. Rigg
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Inspired by the Black Plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s, Boccaccio's collection of tales is an enormously influential literary masterpiece with a sly humor and irreverence that will appeal to modern readers. In the hopes of avoiding the plague, a group of ten wealthy young men and women decamp to a country villa on the outskirts of Florence. Once there, they decide to amuse themselves with a storytelling competition of sorts, with each attendee offering one tale each day for a period of ten days. The stories are by turns ribald, tragic and everything in between.

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Publisher: Duke Classics

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  • ISBN: 9781634214759
  • File size: 924 KB
  • Release date: June 4, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781634214759
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  • Release date: June 4, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781634214759
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Classic Literature Fiction Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1500
Text Difficulty:12

Inspired by the Black Plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s, Boccaccio's collection of tales is an enormously influential literary masterpiece with a sly humor and irreverence that will appeal to modern readers. In the hopes of avoiding the plague, a group of ten wealthy young men and women decamp to a country villa on the outskirts of Florence. Once there, they decide to amuse themselves with a storytelling competition of sorts, with each attendee offering one tale each day for a period of ten days. The stories are by turns ribald, tragic and everything in between.

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Classic Literature Fiction Historical Fiction