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Author Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Title The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated with an introduction and notes by G.H. McWilliam.

Publication Info. London : New York : 1995.
Penguin Books, 1995.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BOCCACCIO    Check Shelf
Edition 2nd ed.
Description cli, 909 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages cxlv-cli) and indexes.
Summary Set against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death, an anthology of one hundred interlinked tales presents a variety of works recounted by the citizens of Florence--nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, philosophers, students, peasants, pilgrims, thieves, and others--who have fled the city to escape the plague.
Note Originally published: 1972.
Subject Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Plague.
Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
Storytelling. (OCoLC)fst01134169
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Genre/Form Frame stories.
Student Collection.
Allegories.
Fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Frame stories. (OCoLC)fst01750205
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Frame-stories.
Added Author McWilliam, G. H. (George Henry)
Added Title Decamerone. English
Other Form: Online version: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone. English. Decameron. 2nd ed. London : New York : Penguin Books, 1995 (OCoLC)643903323
ISBN 014044629X
9780140446296
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