
Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, and the complete work #13260
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (299K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2004-08-23
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

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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