The Decameron or Ten Days Entertainment of Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Indian Paper Edition 1920 Stewart & Kidd Company Hardback Gerald Kersh screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced And as she leads screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales) The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death