Length18h 15m
About this audiobook
Droll Stories, collection of short stories by Honoré de Balzac, published in three sets of 10 stories each, in 1832, 1833, and 1837, as Contes drolatiques. Rabelaisian in theme, the stories are written with great vitality in a pastiche of 16th-century language. The tales are fully as lively as the author's masterful Comédie humaine series, but they stand apart for their good-humoured licentiousness and historical wordplay.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length18 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TRANSLATORS PREFACE
27THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
2VOLUME I
28THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE
3PROLOGUE
29THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
4THE FAIR IMPERIA
30THE SUCCUBUS
5THE VENIAL SIN
31Prologue
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6HOW THE GOOD MAN BRUYN TOOK A WIFE.
32PETITION
7HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY.
33TOURNEBOUCHE.
8THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN.
34PETITION
9HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED.
35HIEROME CORNILLE.
10HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING.
36JEHAN DE LA HAYE.
11THE KING’S SWEETHEART
37DESPAIR IN LOVE
12THE DEVIL’S HEIR
38EPILOGUE
13THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH
39VOLUME III
14THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE
40PROLOGUE
15THE MAID OF THILOUSE
41PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE
16THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
42CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
17THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU
43ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
18THE REPROACH
44BERTHA THE PENITENT
19EPILOGUE
45HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE
20VOLUME II
46IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE
21PROLOGUE
47CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS
22THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
48ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
23THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST
49INNOCENCE
24THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
50THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
25HOW THE CHATEAU D’AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT
51EPILOGUE
26THE FALSE COURTESAN
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