The Decameron

The Decameron
ISBN-10
0393523004
ISBN-13
9780393523003
Series
The Decameron
Category
Fiction
Language
English
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Giovanni Boccaccio

Description

This volume presents fifty-five stories, newly translated, of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio’s masterpiece.

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