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
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TRANSLATORS PREFACE
2VOLUME I
3PROLOGUE
4THE FAIR IMPERIA
5THE VENIAL SIN
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6HOW THE GOOD MAN BRUYN TOOK A WIFE.
7HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY.
8THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN.
9HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED.
10HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING.
11THE KING’S SWEETHEART
12THE DEVIL’S HEIR
13THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH
14THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE
15THE MAID OF THILOUSE
16THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
17THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU
18THE REPROACH
19EPILOGUE
20VOLUME II
21PROLOGUE
22THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
23THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST
24THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
25HOW THE CHATEAU D’AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT
26THE FALSE COURTESAN
27THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
28THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE
29THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
30THE SUCCUBUS
31Prologue
32PETITION
33TOURNEBOUCHE.
34PETITION
35HIEROME CORNILLE.
36JEHAN DE LA HAYE.
37DESPAIR IN LOVE
38EPILOGUE
39VOLUME III
40PROLOGUE
41PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE
42CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
43ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
44BERTHA THE PENITENT
45HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE
46IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE
47CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS
48ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
49INNOCENCE
50THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
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