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Droll Stories: Collected from The Abbeys of Touraine by Honore de Balzac - 1874

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Droll Stories: Collected from The Abbeys of Touraine by Honore de Balzac - 1874

Droll Stories: Collected from The Abbeys of Touraine

by Honore de Balzac

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London: Privately Printed, 1874. Hardcover. fair. A. Robida. No Dust Jacket. Burgundy colored cloth covered boards with title label glued to spine; spine faded. Boards are bumped with a couple of spots. Old bookstore price and stamp on front endpapers. Top edges of pages gilt; deckle edges; 48 illustrations by Robida on quality paper, tipped-in. Two pages have stray crayon marks. Faint smoke smell. Privately Printed, undated, London. 468 pages, illystrated by A. Robida. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Translator's Preface has the only date in the book, January 1874. This book is probably printed much later. French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799 -1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite attention to detail. This edition's excellent anonymous translation was the first to make Contes Drolatiques available to English-speaking readers. Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, published in three installments in the 1830s, offers a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. These thirty stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais were claimed by the author to have originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Abounding in episodes of good-humored licentiousness, the tales scandalized Balzac's contemporaries and continue to delight modern readers.
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  • Illustrator A. Robida
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  • Book Condition Used - fair
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Privately Printed
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1874
  • Keywords humor
  • Size 8vo

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Droll Stories: Selected Tales
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Droll Stories: Selected Tales

by De Balzac, Honore

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Droll Stories : Selected Tales

Droll Stories : Selected Tales

by Honore de Balzac

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Droll Stories

Droll Stories

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DROLL STORIES

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New York: Avon, 1955. Soft cover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. T-102. A decent copy.
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DROLL STORIES (TWO VOLUMES IN ONE)

by BALZAC, HONORE DE

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Droll Stories (Panther Books)

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Granada, 1985-11-21. paperback. Good. 1.1024 7.6378 5.0394.
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Droll Stories

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NY: Avon, 1955. 223pp. Color cover and b&w illustrations by by Steele Savage. Slight wear, minor crease to front bottom corner. Size: Mass Market. T-102. First Printing.. Paperback. Very Good.
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The Droll Stories of Honor de Balzac

by Honoré de Balzac

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