If Geoffrey Chaucer earns a spot in here, so does Boccaccio and The Decameron, on which The Canterbury Tales is based.
If Geoffrey Chaucer earns a spot in here, so does Boccaccio and The Decameron, on which The Canterbury Tales is based.
Favorite authors: Poe, Kafka, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Kosinski, Faulkner, Crane, Fitzgerald, Cervantes, Joyce, Dickens
Does anyone agree with this?
Favorite authors: Poe, Kafka, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Kosinski, Faulkner, Crane, Fitzgerald, Cervantes, Joyce, Dickens
I do.
Reviving this thread with an on line version of The Decameron:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700...-h/23700-h.htm
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row