books about: 1831-1842 (decameron boccaccio)

books about: 1831-1842

books:

General History Of The World V2: From The Earliest Times Until The Year 1831 (1842)
Carl Von Rotteck

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

In Four Volumes.

Beginnings Of A New School Of Metaphysics: Outline Of Sematology, 1831; Sequel To Sematology, 1837; An ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Tales and Sketches, vol. 1: 1831-1842
Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, ...

University of Illinois Press, 2000

Esteemed as a literary critic and poet, Edgar Allan Poe was most highly acclaimed for his tales and sketches. He transformed the short story from anecdote to art, virtually created the detective story, and perfected the psychological thriller. This volume is the first of two, edited by the consummate Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, collecting all the tales of this master of the uncanny, the unnerving, and the terrifying. Poe's stories reflect ...

Stories of Boccaccio (The Decameron), tr. from the Italian into English, with eleven original etchings by ...

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Giovanni (1313-1375) - Related names: Payne, John (1842-1916) tr; Flameng, Leopold (1831-1911) illus Boccaccio

London, Pub. for the trade [1920], 1920

Bawdy tales of love
This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. The "Decameron" is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical ...