03720cam a22005175i 4500 19166637 BD-DhUL 20170125093611.0 160707s2015 nyu 000 j eng d 2015298921 9781634505116 1634505115 (OCoLC)ocn907190452 BTCTA eng BD-DhUL rda BD-DhUL YDXCP ORX OCLCO OCLCF DLC eng fre lccopycat 843.73 BAC Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author. Contes drôlatiques. English Droll stories / Honoré de Balzac. First Skyhorse Publishing edition. New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. 557 pages : 25 cm. ill., text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier This version first published 1928. Pagination re-starts after Volume I. Volume I. The first ten tales : Prologue -- The fair Imperia -- The venial sin -- The king's sweetheart -- The devil's heir -- The merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- The high constable's wife -- The maid of Thilhouse -- The brother-in-arms -- The vicar of Azay-Le-Rideau -- The reproach -- Epilogue -- The second ten tales : Prologue -- 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 -- Volume II. The second ten tales (continued) : The sermon of the merry vicar of Meudon -- The succubus -- Despair in love -- Epilogue -- The third ten tales : Prologue -- 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 sayins of three pilgrims -- Innocence -- The fair Imperia married -- Epilogue. "Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors--the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking." -- Amazon.com Translated from the French. France History Fiction. France. fast (OCoLC)fst01204289 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Humorous fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726649 Short stories. fast (OCoLC)fst01726740 Humorous fiction. lcgft Short stories. lcgft Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. Contes drôlatiques. English. Contributor biographical information https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015298921-b.html Publisher description https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015298921-d.html 0 ibc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xk25 2016-07-07 z-processor 154848 154848 0 0 ddc 0 BAC 0 FIC 285935 DUL DUL GEN 2017-01-25 BAC 57244 2017-01-25 2017-01-25 BK