Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac epub Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac pdf download Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac pdf file Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac audiobook Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac book review Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Honore de Balzac summary | #3212094 in Books | 2014-12-17 | 2014-11-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.03 x1.36 x4.98l,.0 | File type: PDF | 576 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Dated and boring|By medfair|I have to admit that I have not managed to read more than a sixth of this book. It is very well written (if you accept the archaic style) and the subject was supposed to be funny, usually the virtue of losing virtue. Alas, like Yogi Berra's famous quote - "It's deja vu all over again". Once you've read Chaucer or Boccaccio, it seems as novel and tast||
|"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." Marcel Proust||"[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." Henry James||One of the first among the greatest, one
Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, published in three installments in the 1830s, offers a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. These thirty stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais 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. Frenc...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Droll Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) | Honore de Balzac. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
