507 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1932 by The Heritage press.
Droll stories
thirty tales by Honoré de Balzac, all now especially translated into modern English
Honoré de Balzac: Droll stories (1932, The Heritage press)
- OCLC Number:
- 1048205114
1 star
(1 review)
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.
