"The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original."-JONATHAN KEATES, The Telegraph
| ISBN: | 9780393427882 |
| Publication date: | 8th December 2020 |
| Author: | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 640 pages |
| Series: | The Norton Library |
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
"The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings.
The Decameron features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
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The Decameron was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
The Decameron has 640 pages
Yes it is part of The Norton Library series
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