The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio with John Payne (Translator)

800 pages first pub 1351 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics literary short stories adventurous funny slow-paced
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In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of ...

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