Droll Stories — Complete
by OpenStories
Original author: Honoré de Balzac
"Droll Stories — Complete" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in three groups between 1832 and 1837. Inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and written in pastiche Renaissance French, these ribald tales explore medieval and Renaissance France with startling directness and sexual frankness. Balzac envisioned one hundred stories but completed only thirty, creating what he called an "arabesque" around his serious fiction. The tales evoke a golden age of French character while offering provocative commentary on history, morality, and society through archaic language and remote settings.
Droll Stories — Complete, by Honoré de Balzac. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #13260.
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28 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter694 words
- 2.Prologue (1)8,680 words
- 3.Prologue (2)8,786 words
- 4.Prologue (3)8,838 words
- 5.Prologue (4)8,673 words
- 6.Prologue (5)8,579 words
- 7.Prologue (6)8,836 words
- 8.Prologue (7)3,859 words
- 9.Prologue (1)8,380 words
- 10.Prologue (2)8,888 words
- 11.Prologue (3)8,805 words
- 12.Prologue (4)8,198 words
- 13.Prologue (5)2,212 words
- 14.Chapter I: What the Succubus Was6,732 words
- 15.Chapter II5,132 words
- 16.Chapter III3,025 words
- 17.Chapter IV6,291 words
- 18.Epilogue523 words
- 19.Prologue (1)8,902 words
- 20.Prologue (2)8,871 words
- 21.Prologue (3)2,129 words
- 22.Chapter I: How Bertha Remained a Maiden in the Married State3,424 words
- 23.Chapter II: How Bertha Behaved, Knowing the Business of Love5,142 words
- 24.Chapter III (1)8,844 words
- 25.Chapter III (2)8,878 words
- 26.Chapter I3,804 words
- 27.Chapter II: How This Marriage Ended3,453 words
- 28.Epilogue400 words