TY - BOOK AU - Marguerite,Queen,consort of Henry II,King of Navarre AU - Le Roux de Lincy AU - Dunker,Balthasar Anton AU - Freudenberger,Sigmund AU - Saintsbury,George TI - The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 1 (of 5) AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Love stories, French -- Translations into English KW - Tales -- France -- Translations into English N1 - Followed by vol II PG#17702; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptam%C3%A9ron; Release date is 2006-02-07; Produced by David Widger; Originally published; London: The Society of English Bibliophilists, 1894 N2 - "The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 1 (of 5)" by Marguerite de Navarre is a collection of short stories written in French and published posthumously in 1558. Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, this frame narrative follows stranded travelers who pass time by sharing tales while awaiting a bridge's completion. The stories explore love, lust, infidelity, and sexual intrigue, often featuring dramatic ironies and moral complexities. Originally intended to contain one hundred stories across ten days, the collection remained unfinished at Marguerite's death, ending partway through the eighth day. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17701 ER -