The Decameron Volume II The Last Five Days

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The Decameron Volume II The Last Five Days
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Literature

The Decameron Volume II The Last Five Days

Giovanni Boccaccio
Edition year 1955
Binding Buckram
Translator Richard Aldington
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 324
Dimensions 25.1 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

Decameron, The Volume II The Last Five Days by Giovanni Boccaccio. Translated by Richard Aldington. Ten aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Bound in brown buckram with a design in red and green. White dust-jacket printed in red and green. 25.1x16.2cm. 324pp.

About the book

This volume contains the stories told during the final five days of Boccaccio's Decameron. As the young storytellers continue their retreat from plague-stricken Florence, they explore increasingly varied themes involving love, generosity, deception, fortune and human ingenuity. The stories move freely between humour, romance, satire and moral reflection, depicting people from many levels of medieval society. Together they complete one of the richest and most influential collections of storytelling in European literature.

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