Unisciti a noi in un viaggio nel mondo dei libri!
Aggiungi questo libro allo scaffale
Grey
Scrivi un nuovo commento Default profile 50px
Grey
Iscriviti per leggere l'intero libro o leggi le prime pagine gratuitamente!
Voglio leggerlo!
All characters reduced
The Decameron - cover

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Casa editrice: Qasim Idrees

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Sinossi

Inspired by the Black Plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s, Boccaccio's collection of tales is an enormously influential literary masterpiece with a sly humor and irreverence that will appeal to modern readers. In the hopes of avoiding the plague, a group of ten wealthy young men and women decamp to a country villa on the outskirts of Florence. Once there, they decide to amuse themselves with a storytelling competition of sorts, with each attendee offering one tale each day for a period of ten days. The stories are by turns ribald, tragic and everything in between.
Disponibile da: 08/12/2017.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

  • The Man in the Iron Mask - cover

    The Man in the Iron Mask

    Alexandre Dumas

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan—             the four musketeers—             find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties. Deep inside the Bastille, a young prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long years, completely unaware of his real name or the nature of his crime. But Aramis knows his secret—             a secret so dangerous that it could change the face of the French monarchy and topple the King from his throne! Will Aramis'              cause divide the once indivisible band of musketeers? A tale of mystery, adventure, and political intrigue, this conclusion to the musketeer saga is based on the true story of a masked prisoner who dwelled in the Bastille during Louis XIV'             s reign.
    Mostra libro
  • The Secret of Father Brown - cover

    The Secret of Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown stories contains the magnificent 'The Chief Mourner of Marne'- a fascinating story with unexpected twists – about a duel and a case of mistaken identity.
    Mostra libro
  • The Dream Woman - cover

    The Dream Woman

    Wilkie Collins

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A man's recurring dream of his demise becomes a living nightmare.
    Mostra libro
  • Mary and the Giant - cover

    Mary and the Giant

    Philip K. Dick

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s California 
 
Mary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affairs with a middle-aged record shop owner and then a black blues singer, she seems to only succeed in offending the people living in the small-town of Pacific Park, both by her choice of lifestyle and choice of suitors. And while she stumbles through her various relationships and faces her overwhelming need to get out of town, Mary Anne shines as a "forerunner of the liberated sixties woman" (Library Journal) in this novel by the late prolific novelist, Philip K. Dick.
    Mostra libro
  • Woes of the True Policeman - cover

    Woes of the True Policeman

    Roberto Bolano

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Oscar Amalfitano - an exiled Chilean university professor and widower - through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona. Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican city close to the U.S. border where women are being killed in unprecedented numbers, Amalfitano soon begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings. Meanwhile, Rosa, Amalfitano's daughter, engages in her own epistolary romance with a basketball player from Barcelona, while still trying to cope with her mother's early death and her father's secrets. After finding Castillo in bed with her father, Rosa is forced to confront her own crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano that involves a series of dark twists, cu
    Mostra libro
  • Once Upon a Time - Bedtime Stories for Children - cover

    Once Upon a Time - Bedtime...

    Rudyard Kipling, Grimm The Brothers

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A selection of stories to soothe children to sleep.
    Mostra libro