The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love (Penguin Great Loves) - Softcover

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141034793 ISBN 13: 9780141034799

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....

About this title

About the Author:

Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer of both verse and prose. He wrote The Decameron over a period of ten years, and is also the author of the Elegia di Madonna Fiametta, which has been described as 'the first modern psychological novel', and the narrative poem Filostrato, on which Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is based.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141034793
• ISBN 13: 9780141034799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128