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Droll Stories — Volume 1
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This first volume collects Balzac's bawdy comic tales, written in a deliberately archaic style imitating Rabelais and Renaissance French storytelling, and set largely in earlier centuries of France. It suits readers of classic French literature and those interested in ribald, satirical short fiction.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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