"Droll Stories - Volumes I & Ii" 1928 De Balzac, Honore

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DE BALZAC, Honore

Volume I [291] pp.
Volume II [266] pp.

Boni & Liveright

1928

This limited edition of Droll … Read more DE BALZAC, Honore

Volume I [291] pp.
Volume II [266] pp.

Boni & Liveright

1928

This limited edition of Droll Stories of Balzac in two volumes is limited to 2,050 numbered sets this is set No. 381

10" x 7 1/4"

Illustrated by Ralph Barton

Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French; although the title promises a hundred, only thirty were published, in groups of ten in 1832, 1833, and 1837. See less