The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love (Penguin Great Loves) [Mass Market Paperback]

Giovanni Boccaccio (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2007 | Series: Penguin Great Loves (Book 3)

Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all-encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence.

All books in this series: Cures for Love
Doomed Love
The Eaten Heart
First Love
Forbidden Fruit
The Kreutzer Sonata
A Mere Interlude
Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests
The Seducer’s Diary

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About the Author

Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer of both verse and prose. He wrote The Decameron over a period of ten years, and is also the author of the Elegia di Madonna Fiametta, which has been described as 'the first modern psychological novel', and the narrative poem Filostrato, on which Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is based. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (December 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141034793
• ISBN-13: 978-0141034799
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #947,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a little trashy, May 9, 2009

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This review is from: The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love (Penguin Great Loves) (Mass Market Paperback)

But not in a bad way... I was reading one of these every night before me and my husband went to bed, and let's just say we didn't go right to sleep afterwards :)

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars the eaten heart, July 13, 2009

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Lauren E. Luna "KTOWN_LUNA" (REDLANDS, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love (Penguin Great Loves) (Paperback)

the book was not in "brand new" condition. pencil marks on the pages and bent edges