Stories from the Pentamerone

Overview:

  • Title: Stories from the Pentamerone
  • Author: Giambattista Basile
  • Year: 1911
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Pages: xii+304
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Stories from the Pentamerone
  • Notes: {{tr|John Edward Taylor}} "Selected and Edited by E. F. Strange" on title page First printing Page 304 is not numbered, but contains the last paragraphs of the final story Illustration pages are not part of the page count and are not numbered. The list of illustrations on pp. xi-xii indicates which page the illustration faces. Chapter numbers are indicated throughout the text by a Roman numeral at the top right or top left of each page, as well as at the beginning of each chapter. Illustration titles are from the illustration index and the tissue paper protective page opposite each illustration. The back of each illustration page is blank. "How the Tales Came to Be Told" and "Conclusion" are basically a wrapper story during which the remaining stories are told.