Droll Stories

This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the original. In his preface, wrote Professor George Saintsbury, Balzac acknowledged his indebtedness to his master Rabelais; and, to be sure, the points of likeness between those two great Frenchmen are striking. They both put on a mask of comedy and rakishness in order to write with more freedom about manners, customs, politics and religion.

Author: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/01/1944
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9780871401861

About the Author
Balzac, Honore De: - 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.