The Eaten Heart

Unlikely Tales of Love

Giovanni Boccaccio (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2007
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-103278-8 (ISBN)

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Part of the "Great Loves" series which introduces readers to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities, this book features tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate, from the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover's heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery.

Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love….

Boccaccio (1313-1375) 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 the Elegia di Madonna Fiametta, which has been described as 'the first modern psychological novel', and the narrative poem Filostrato, on which Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is based.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.8.2007
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Great Loves
Übersetzer	G. H. McWilliam
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	113 x 181 mm
Gewicht	84 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-14-103278-2 / 0141032782
ISBN-13	978-0-14-103278-8 / 9780141032788
Zustand	Neuware