The Decameron: Selected Tales/Decameron: Novelle Scelte: A Dual-Language Book
- ISBN-10
- 0486414329
- ISBN-13
- 9780486414324
- Series
- The Decameron
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Authors
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Stanley Appelbaum
Description
Presents the English and Italian translations of the fourteenth-century novel "The Decameron", which is comprised of one hundred tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague.
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