Droll Stories — Volume 3

by Honoré de Balzac

EN·~5 hours·1 chapter

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1 total

Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, Dagny and Emma Dudding

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Description

Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, and the complete work #13260

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~5 hours (299K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

Aug 23, 2004

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2551

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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