{"product_id":"the-decameron-franklin-library-the-100-greatest-books-of-all-time","title":"The Decameron (Franklin Library: The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early summer of the year 1348  as a terrible plague ravages the city  ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other storiesa hundred stories of love  adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer  Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist  Boccaccio has little time for chastity  pokes fun at crafty  hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy  the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature  and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to todays readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition  which also includes additional explanatory notes  maps  bibliography and indexes  Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he isone of the worlds greatest masters of vivid and exciting prose fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983775232053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0856546232","price":31.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780856546235.jpg?v=1770809904","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-decameron-franklin-library-the-100-greatest-books-of-all-time","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}