Marguerite De Navarre

A fascinating and witty collection of stories, giving great insight into sixteenth-century France. In the early 1500s, five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired—by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron—to pass the time...