The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio's collection of bawdy, comic and sometimes tragic tales, which had an enormous influence on English literature, notably on Chaucer.-
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Pride and Prejudice
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Middlemarch
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Wuthering Heights
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Moby Dick
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Great Expectations
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Dracula
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The Twelve Caesars
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Northanger Abbey
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The Prince
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The Histories
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Ecce Homo
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Frankenstein
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Sense and Sensibility
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Bleak House
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
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Persuasion
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
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The Symposium
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The Shorter Pepys
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Stancliffe's Hotel
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Paradise Lost
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On the Nature of the Universe
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Oliver Twist
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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The King's Peace, 1637-41
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Anna Karenina
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Silas Marner
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Jane Eyre
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Short Stories
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Little Dorrit
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David Copperfield
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Hard Times
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The Lost World
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The Journal
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The Hand of Ethelberta
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The Well-beloved
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was born in Florence, Italy. His life thus coincided with the flowering of the early Renaissance, and indeed his closest friend was Petrarch, the other towering literary figure of the period. During his lifetime, Boccaccio was a diplomat, businessman, and international traveler, as well as the creator of numerous works of prose and poetry. Of his achievements, The Decameron, completed sometime between 1350 and 1352, remains his lasting contribution to world literature, immensely popular from its original appearance to the present day. Peter Hainsworth (translator) is an emeritus fellow and professor of Italian at Oxford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140446296 |
| ISBN 10 | 014044629X |
| Title | The Decameron |
| Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Series | Penguin Classics S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 1072 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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