Verlag: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
ISBN 10: 152335447X ISBN 13: 9781523354474
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It is probable that every one who has had much to do with the study of literature has conceived certain preferences for books which he knows not to belong absolutely to the first order, but which he thinks to have been unjustly depreciated by the general judgment, and which appeal to his own tastes or sympathies with particular strength. One of such books in my own case is THE HEPTAMERON of Margaret of Navarre. I have read it again and again, sometimes at short intervals, sometimes at longer, during the lapse of some five-and-twenty years since I first met with it. But the place which it holds in my critical judgment and in my private affections has hardly altered at all since the first reading. I like it as a reader perhaps rather more than I esteem it as a critic; but even as a critic, and allowing fully for the personal equation, I think that it deserves a far higher place than is generally accorded to it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Simplicissimus Book Farm, Middletown, DE, USA, 2019
ISBN 10: 152335447X ISBN 13: 9781523354474
Anbieter: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 185pp. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. Remainder dot to bottom edge of text block. Originally published in 1558 in Paris under the title, Histoires des Amans Fortunez. edited by Pierre Boaistuau, the royally appointed court author.