Droll Stories — Complete by Honoré de Balzac
"Droll Stories — Complete" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in three groups between 1832 and 1837. Inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and written in pastiche Renaissance French, these ribald tales explore medieval and Renaissance France with startling directness and sexual frankness. Balzac envisioned one hundred stories but completed only thirty, creating what he called an "arabesque" around his serious fiction. The tales evoke a golden age
of French character while offering provocative commentary on history, morality, and society through archaic language and remote settings. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Title |
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine |
| Note |
Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques Composed of the following etexts, also available separately: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, & Vol 3: #2551 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques |
| Credits |
Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, Dagny and Emma Dudding HTML version produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.9 (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. | 13260 |
| Release Date | Aug 23, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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