Droll Stories — Complete: Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Droll Stories — Complete: Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850).
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Droll Stories — Complete: Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
- Author credits: Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- French literature -- 19th century
- Humorous stories
- Short stories, French -- Translations into English
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- Category: French Literature
- Category: Historical Novels
- Category: Humour
- Category: Short Stories
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