Droll Stories

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

THE FAIR IMPERIA THE VENIAL SIN THE KING'S SWEETHEART THE DEVIL'S HEIR THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH THE HIGH CONSTABLE'S WIFE THE MAID OF THILOUSE THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU THE REPROACH THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY HOW THE CHATEAU D'AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT THE FALSE COURTESAN THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON THE SUCCUBUS DESPAIR IN LOVE PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY BERTHA THE PENITENT HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS INNOCENCE THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783736406056
Publisher:	anboco
Publication date:	08/20/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	500
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was born in Tours. By the time of his death, he had written over one hundred novels, novellas, and plays, all the while working as a journalist. Colonel Chabert is one of the "Scenes from Private Life," which is a part of Balzac's well-known life-long project, La Comedie Humaine.

Editorial Reviews

"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." —Marcel Proust

"[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." —Henry James

“One of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best…He ransacked vice, he dissected passion.”
—Victor Hugo

"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." —Marcel Proust

"[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." —Henry James

“One of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best…He ransacked vice, he dissected passion.”
—Victor Hugo

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