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Droll stories
- Title
- Droll stories / by Honoré de Balzac ; edited by Ernest Boyd.
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
- Publication
- New York : Liveright, 1944, ©1928.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PZ3.B198 C6 1944 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Boyd, Ernest Augustus, 1887-1946
- Description
- 2 volumes in 1; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Black & gold library
- Uniform Title
- Contes drolatiques. English
- Alternative Title
- Contes drolatiques.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Contents
- Volume I: First ten tales: Fair Imperia -- Venial sin: How the goodman Bruyn took a wife -- How the Seneschal struggled with his wife's modesty -- That which is only a venial sin -- How and by whom the said child was procured -- How the said love-sin was repented of and led to great mourning -- King's sweetheart -- Devil's heir -- Merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- High constable's wife -- Maid of Thilouse -- Brother-in-arms -- Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau -- Reproach -- Second ten tales: Three clerks of St. Nicholas -- Continence of King Francis the First -- Merry tattle of the Nuns of Poisy -- How the Chateau d'Azay came to be built -- False courtesan -- Danger of being too innocent -- Dear night of love -- Volume II: Sermon of the merry Vicar of Meudon -- Succubus: What the Succubus was -- Proceedings taken relative to this female vampire -- What the Succubus did to suck out the soul of the old judge, and what came of the diabolical delectation -- How the Moorish woman of the Rue Chaude twisted about so briskly, that with great difficulty was she burned and cooked alive, to the great loss of the infernal regions -- Despair in love -- Third ten tales: Perseverabnce in love -- Concerning a Provost who did not recognize things -- About the monk Amador, who was a glorious Abbot of Turpenay -- Bertha the penitent: How Berth remained a maiden in the married state -- How Bertha behaved, knowing the business of love -- Horrible chastisement of Bertha and expiation of the same, who died pardoned -- How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge -- In which it is demonstrated that fortune is always feminine -- Concerning a poor man who was called Le Vieux par-Chemins -- Odd sayings of three pilgrims -- Innocence -- Fair Imperia married: How Madame Imperia was caught in the very net she was accustomed to spread for her love-birds -- How this marriage ended.
- OCLC
- ocm07680283
- 7680283
- SCSB-14276737
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library