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The Decameron

Collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio . The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city

Vacuum Diagrams

Collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter

Ficciones

Collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, produced between 1941 and 1956. The English translation of Fictions was published in 1962, the same year as Labyrinths, a separate compilation of Borges’s translated works

The Second Sex

1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history