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Droll Stories — Volume 3
| Author: | Honoré De Balzac |
| Category: | French Cuisine And Dishes [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 23 Aug 2004 |
| Pages: | 179 |
| File Size: | 995.13 KB |
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| Creation Date: | 19 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 852,550 No 1 most popular |
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Honoré De Balzac
The Author Book Droll Stories — Volume 3 and the author of 215 another books.
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Due to his keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the found Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Due to his keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers.
An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was apprenticed as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.
Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he lost than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime paramour; he passed away five months later.
Book Description
Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Title: Droll Stories — Volume 3
Note: Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques
See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, and the complete work #13260
Contents: Perseverance in love -- Concerning a provost who did not recognise things -- About the Monk Amador, who was a glorious Abbot of Turpenay -- Bertha the penitent -- 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 sayins of three pilgrims -- Innocence -- The fair Imperia married.
Language: English
LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject: Humorous stories
Subject: French literature -- 19th century
Subject: France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject: Short stories, French -- Translations into English
Release Date: Aug 23, 2004
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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