The Droll Stories Of Honore De Balzac

Paperback, 584 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2004 by Kessinger Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-4179-1193-6
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OCLC Number:
165129272

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A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.

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Subjects

  • General & Literary Fiction
  • Literary
  • Fiction - General
  • Fiction