Droll Stories

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Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac Translated into modern English by Alec Brown With Drawings by Mervyn Peake The Folio Society edition without slipcase. Condition fair. Ex Libris s ticker on the inside front cover, left (see in photo). This is a collection of thirty short stories, arranged into three groups, written by Honoré de Balzac in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. They are witty, amusing, lewd, risqué, and overall anti-clerical as Balzac loved making a joke of the corruption in the Catholic Church, and despite their vows, the lack of chastity and the greed of its monks, nuns and priests. Source for description: librarything.com Show more