Droll Stories — Volume 1

by Honoré de Balzac

EN·~5 hours·17 chapters

Chapters

17 total

DROLL STORIES - COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE

0:03

VOLUME I

0:00

THE FIRST TEN TALES

0:02

TRANSLATORS PREFACE

3:48

FIRST TEN TALES

0:01

PROLOGUE

5:00

THE FAIR IMPERIA

29:55

THE VENIAL SIN

1:17:55

THE KING'S SWEETHEART

27:15

THE DEVIL'S HEIR

36:47

Description

Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques See also: Vol 2: #2318, Vol 3: #2551, and the complete work #13260

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Ian Hodgson, and Dagny

Release date

Aug 23, 2004

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1925

Subjects

Humorous stories French literature -- 19th century France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Short stories, French -- Translations into English PQ

About the author

Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850

Best known for the vast world of La Comédie humaine, this French novelist turned ordinary ambitions, debts, scandals, and desires into stories that still feel startlingly alive. His books helped shape literary realism by showing society in all its energy, vanity, and struggle.

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