The Pleasant Nights

The Pleasant Nights
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 777
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ISBN-10 : 9781442644267
ISBN-13 : 1442644265
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Book Synopsis The Pleasant Nights by : Giovanni Francesco Straparola

Download or read book The Pleasant Nights written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text.


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