An edition of Les contes drôlatiques (1855)

Balzac's Contes dro latiques =

Droll stories : collected from the abbeys of Touraine

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An edition of Les contes drôlatiques (1855)

Balzac's Contes dro latiques =

Droll stories : collected from the abbeys of Touraine

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A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.

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Publisher
J.C. Hotten
Language
English, French
Pages
650

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Edition Notes

Translator's preface dated: London, January, 1874.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in original red pictorial publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and in black.

Published in
London
Other Titles
Droll stories

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
846
Library of Congress
PQ2164 .A43 1874

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxii, 650 p. :
Number of pages
650

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25620646M
Internet Archive
balzacscontesdro00balz
OCLC/WorldCat
1089396

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL85056W

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