Tales from the Decameron
By Giovanni Boccaccio
Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
Translated by Peter Hainsworth
Notes by Peter Hainsworth
By Giovanni Boccaccio
Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
Translated by Peter Hainsworth
Notes by Peter Hainsworth
Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction | Short Stories
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$16.00
May 10, 2016 | ISBN 9780141191331
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Praise
“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
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