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. 5 (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 IV PG#17704; 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. 5 (of 5)" by Marguerite is a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1558. Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, this frame narrative presents tales of love, lust, infidelity, and romantic intrigue told by stranded travelers awaiting a bridge's completion. The stories explore human passion and desire through accounts both humorous and dramatic. Originally intended to contain one hundred stories across ten days, the work remained unfinished at Marguerite's death, stopping midway through the eighth day with seventy-two tales completed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17705 ER -