Droll Stories — Volume 2 by Honoré de Balzac
"Droll Stories — Volume 2" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in 1833. This second group of ten tales continues Balzac's bawdy reimagining of medieval and Renaissance France, written in pastiche archaic French. Inspired by Boccaccio and Rabelais, these ribald stories grow increasingly dark, turning on characters being duped and tormented. Balzac intended them as a celebration of French national character before prudery, though critics found
them indecent and scandalous. They remain his most experimental and controversial work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Title | Droll Stories — Volume 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques |
| Note |
Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 3: #2551, and the complete work #13260 |
| Contents | The three clerks of Saint Nicholas -- The continence of King Francis the First -- The merry tattle of the nuns of Poissy -- How the Chateau d'Azay came to be built -- The false courtesan -- The danger of being too innocent -- The dear night of love -- The sermon of the merry vicar of Meudon -- The succubus -- Despair in love. |
| Credits | Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, and Dagny |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 64.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | French literature -- 19th century |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Short stories, French -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 2318 |
| Release Date | Aug 23, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 31, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 272 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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