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. 2 (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 - Preceded by vol I PG#17701 and followed by vol III PG#17703; 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. 2 (of 5)" by Marguerite 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, blending devotion with earthly desires. Through seventy-two tales of romantic entanglements and revenge, Marguerite crafted a provocative portrait of human passion and deception in Renaissance France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17702 ER -