Droll Stories — Volume 3

Name: Droll Stories — Volume 3
Author: Honoré de Balzac

by Honoré de Balzac

EN·~5 hours

Chapters

Description

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

Details

Language

Duration

~5 hours (299K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-08-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

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

About the author

Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850

A giant of French fiction, he turned the crowded streets, salons, and back rooms of 19th-century France into vivid, gripping stories. His vast cycle of novels and tales, known as La Comédie humaine, helped shape the modern realist novel.

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