Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac | 1928 | Garden City Publishing Edition | Bixley Shop

A beautiful edition of Balzac's Droll Stories published by Garden City Publishing in 1928.

ABOUT DROLL STORIES (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French; although the title promises a hundred, only thirty were published, in groups of ten in 1832, 1833, and 1837.

ABOUT HONORE DE BALZAC (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Droll Stories
• Written by Honore de Balzac
• 266 page, linen, embossed & gilded hardcover
• Published by Garden City Publishing, 1928
• Black and white illustrations throughout
• Measures 9 3/4" x 6 3/4"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In great condition
• Binding is nice and tight
• Almost no wear on the covers
• Pages have yellowed a bit but otherwise in excellent condition

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