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American short stories

Note 29 — INTRODUCTION

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This, perhaps, is typically the novella; but Boccaccio will not fix the term: “intendo di raccontare cento novelle, o favole o parabole o istorie, che dire le vogliamo ... nelle quali novelle....”—Preface to Decameron.

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