The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 2


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THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance.

From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so early a date, which shows to me the characteristic of the time as it influenced the two great literary nations of Europe so distinctly as this book of Margaret of Angoulême… - Summary adapted from Wikipedia and excerpted from the text by lubee930 (4 hr 7 min)

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First Day, Tale VIII 15:13 Gelesen von Lynne T
First Day, Tale IX 15:19 Gelesen von Anna Simon
First Day, Tale X, Part 1 13:46 Gelesen von Mary J
First Day, Tale X, Part 2 16:08 Gelesen von Mary J
First Day, Tale X, Part 3 15:44 Gelesen von Mary J
First Day, Tale X, Part 4 15:07 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Prologue and Tale XI (A) 6:38 Gelesen von Lynne T
Second Day, Tale XI (B) 7:57 Gelesen von Lynne T
Second Day, Tale XII 15:17 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Tale XIII 23:21 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Tale XIV 18:21 Gelesen von Lynne T
Second Day, Tale XV, Part 1 11:43 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Tale XV, Part 2 14:40 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Tale XVI 13:41 Gelesen von Lynne T
Second Day, Tale XVII 7:18 Gelesen von Mary J
Second Day, Tale XVIII 10:39 Gelesen von Mary J
Appendix A, Tale VIII, Page 1 3:20 Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Appendix B, Tale XI (B), Page 95 5:07 Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Appendix C, Tale XII, Page 101 6:24 Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Appendix D, Tale XVI, Page 183 4:43 Gelesen von Martin Geeson
Appendix E, Tale XVII, Page 195 7:23 Gelesen von Martin Geeson