Honoré de Balzac: Droll Stories, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Reproduction of the original, first published in 1874. An English translation of the French short story collection "Les Contes drolatiques", written in the mid-19th-century. This third volume of ten ribald tales, composed in pastiche Renaissance French, is set in medieval and Renaissance France. Balzac evokes a golden age of French character while addressing moral and political issues of his own time through archaic language and remote settings. The stories grow increasingly dark and ironic, with complex plotting and references to contemporary life.