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Droll stories : selected tales / Honoré de Balzac.
Van Pelt Library PQ2164 .A4513 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author.
- Series:
- Dover thrift editions
- Standardized Title:
- Contes drôlatiques. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, French--Translations into English.
- Short stories, French.
- Manners and customs.
- France--Social life and customs--16th century--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 164 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Dover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019.
- Summary:
- "These choice selections from Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of 16th-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they were claimed by the author to have originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Abounding in episodes of good-humored licentiousness, the tales scandalized Balzac's contemporaries and continue to delight modern readers"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A scandal to Balzac's contemporaries and a delight for modern readers, these selections offer a lively, lusty portrait of 16th-century French life in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN:
- 9780486826677
- 0486826678
- OCLC:
- 30748159
- Publisher Number:
- 99981822907
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