The Decameron: Selected Tales, Paperback - Giovanni Boccaccio

Reducere. While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themse...

Reducere. A masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 1349 and 1351, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping v...

Reducere. „Decameronul a fost scris in anii misiunilor primite din partea Florentei intre 1348 si 1353. Este opera de maturitate a lui Boccacccio si una din ...

Reducere. Descopera si Decameronul Vol.2 In vara anului 1348, cand ciuma le devasteaza orasul, zece tineri florentini se refugiaza la tara. Ei se distreaza s...

Descopera si Decameronul Vol.1 In vara anului 1348, cand ciuma le devasteaza orasul, zece tineri florentini se refugiaza la tara. Ei se distreaza s...

Includes tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories f...

Povesti din Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

„Decameronul a fost scris in anii misiunilor primite din partea Florentei intre 1348 si 1353. Este opera de maturitate a lui Boccacccio si una din ...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron. - Introductory...

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finish...

Reducere. Part of Alma Evergreen series, J.G. Nichols's new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and emin...

Reducere. Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of me...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

DescriptionWritten in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and a...

Selected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduct...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to ...

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created ma...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmTranslator: Joyce CrickNumber of pages: 416Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsP...

Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.Introduc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Giovanni BoccaccioTranslator: Jon SolomonGenealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work...

DescriptionThe third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in an el...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nikki GiovanniWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately t...

DescriptionThe most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)--the founder of modern ...

Giovanni Pascoli: O Little One and Selected Poems, Paperback

Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrati...

Contributor(s): Author: Frederick M. BiggsA possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio...

men are cocooning from the epidemic, alarmed by daily reports of death nearing their doorstep. Seeking escape from their precarious condition, they...

The entire world has been transformed due to a pandemic. The scope of sadness and destruction is far-reaching and wide. However, focus the world's ...

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Features short stories.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Hans FalladaNumber of pages: 320Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: ...

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horro...

Reducere. This issue of 'Antennae' is part of a project informed by the exhibition 'Making Nature' held at Wellcome Collection in London between the 1st of D...

Reducere. This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni's adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) se...

Reducere. The eighteen stories collected in this volume showcase the simple eloquence of a spectacular literary talent. Lu Hsun practically invented modern C...