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Boccaccio was intent simply on the art of telling tales. He knew enough of classical literature to feel the possible dignity and permanence of prose, and he told his stories as they were told to him in a supple, pleasant vernacular that obeyed him absolutely and never led him off by its own strangeness into byways foreign to the tales and to himself. whose plot may be elaborate.
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- A History of Story-telling
Studies in the development of narrative
By Arthur Ransome
Illustrator: J. Gavin
Published 1909
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