| Title |
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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| Names |
Boccaccio, Giovanni.
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| Book Number |
DB008557
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| Title Status |
Active
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| Medium |
Digital Book
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| Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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| Annotation |
Unexpurgated edition of the fourteenth-century Italian classic set against the background of the Black Death. These lusty, ribald tales are peopled by nobles, knights, abbots, nuns, doctors, lawyers, philosophers, artists, and, most of all, lovers. Some explicit descriptions of sex.
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| Local Subject |
Female Narrator - FN
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Literature - LIT
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Historical Fiction - HIF
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Historical Fiction - Humor - HFHUM
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Historical Fiction - Middle Ages - HIM
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Historical Fiction - Foreign Setting - HIFF
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Classics - CLA
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Classics - Other, Fiction - CLAO
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Classics - Poetry, Drama, Literature - CLAL
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Classics - Pre-20th Century - Fiction - CP20F
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Male Author - MA
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| LC Subject |
Plague - Europe - History - Fiction
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Storytelling - Fiction
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Tales - Italy
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Downloadable books
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Allegories
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Fiction
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Talking books
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| Notes |
ENG
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Contains some explicit descriptions of sex. SE-X NLS/BPH
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| Call Number |
853.15 AFI
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| Language |
English
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| Released |
1930
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1930
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1949, c1930.
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