Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Decameron" is a collection of 100 stories told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The tales, which range from the erotic to the tragic, the hilarious to the instructional, are embedded in a rich framework narrative that provides a detailed portrait of the society of the Italian Renaissance.
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- 39th on The 100 Best Books of World Literature (ABC.es)
- 44th on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
- 82nd on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
- 305th on Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith and Editors)
- Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
- The Bigger Read List (English PEN)
- Harold Bloom's The Western Canon (The Western Canon (Book) by Harold Bloom)
- The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (Easton Press)
- 50 Greatest Books of All Time (Globe and Mail)
- ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher (Die Zeit)
- Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)