The Decameron [Audiobook] download free by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Listen audiobook: The Decameron
- Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Release date: 2003/4/1
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780140449303
- Rating: 7.72 of 10
- Votes: 446
- Review by: Katalina Vance
- Review rating: 9.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/10
- Duration: 13H18M4S in 256 kbps (214.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AC3, Vorbis, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV (compression BZ2, DMG, TBZ2, RAR, CHM, ZIP, EML)
- Total pages original book: 1072
- Includes a PDF summary of 111 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 1H23M35S (22.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A seminal work of European literature that has inspired writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare, the Penguin Classics edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron is translated with an introduction by G.H. McWilliam.In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella, hiding her lover in a tub, to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative. This is the second edition of G.H. McWilliam's acclaimed translation of the Decameron. In his introduction McWilliam illuminates the worlds of Boccaccio and of his storytellers, showing Boccaccio as a master of vivid and exciting prose fiction.Boccaccio (1313-75) was an Italian writer of both verse and prose. He wrote The Decameron over a period of ten years, and is also the author of Teseide and Filostrato.If you enjoyed The Decameron, you might like Dante's Inferno, also available in Penguin Classics.'McWilliam's finest work, his translation of Boccaccio's Decameron remains one of the most successful and lauded books in the series'The Times
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Classic Books & Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: Koofr, MEGA, Librevault, Mediafire, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrent. Compressed in BZ2, DMG, TBZ2, RAR, CHM, ZIP, EML
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.35 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x45mm
- Weight: 724g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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