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Droll Stories by de Balzac, Honore is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Droll Stories about?
From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac’s attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delig
Who reads Droll Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- de Balzac, Honore
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781634505116
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Droll stories (1942)
- Droll Stories: Thirty Tales (1939)
- Droll Stories, Volume Iii: The Third Ten (2006)
- Die tolldreisten Geschichten in den Abteien der Touraine (1981)
- Droll stories (1932)
- Droll Stories (1831)
- Droll stories (1961)
- Droll stories: thirty tales by Honore de Balzac (1939)
- Droll stories : collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light (1985)
- Droll Stories (1944)
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