Guy de Maupassant, 4 novels and 169 stories The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin by Leblanc The Confessions of Arsene Lupin by Leblanc The Three Musketeers by Dumas, all 6 novels of the series THE TALES OF THE HEPTAMERON OF MARGARET, QUEEN OF NAVARRE, VOLUME 2Įstablished in 1974, now offering over 14,000 booksįeedback welcome: classics in English translation available from Seltzer Books: Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman"." Read more As patron of humanists and reformers, and as an author in her own right, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême) (Ap– December 21, 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angouleme and Margaret of Navarre, was the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre. One was based on the life of Marguerite de La Rocque, a French noblewoman abandoned, as punishment, with her lover on an island off Quebec. Many of the stories deal with love, lust, infidelity and other romantic and sexual matters. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. According to Wikipedia: "The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), published posthumously in 1558.
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