Droll Stories: Selected Tales by Honore De Balzac

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Droll Stories: Selected Tales by Honore De Balzac

These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets of ten tales in the 1830s, the stories abound in episodes of good-humored licentiousness that scandalized Balzac's contemporaries and continue to delight modern readers.
French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite attention to detail. This edition's excellent translation was the first to make his Contes Drolatiques available to English-speaking readers.

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ISBN 13 9780486826677
ISBN 10 0486826678
Title Droll Stories: Selected Tales
Author Honore De Balzac
Series Thrift Editions
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Year published 2019-01-16
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.