Droll Stories

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Droll Stories
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Short Stories

Droll Stories

Honoré de Balzac
Edition year 1961
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Mervyn Peake
Translator Alec Browne
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 408
Dimensions 25.2 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

Droll Stories collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Alec Browne. 24 two-colour drawings by Mervyn Peake. Bound in brown canvas blocked with a design in dark brown and grey. Blue slipcase. 408pp. 25.2x16.2cm.

About the book

Honoré de Balzac's Droll Stories is a collection of exuberant tales inspired by medieval and Renaissance France. Written in an intentionally archaic style, the stories feature monks, nobles, merchants, lovers and rogues in plots full of desire, deception, humour and social satire. Balzac draws on the tradition of Rabelais and old French fabliaux to create a bawdy, energetic panorama of human appetite and folly.

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