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Droll Stories, Complete
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ISBN10: 1518705855
ISBN13: 9781518705854
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 31 2015
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781518705854
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 31 2015
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher's name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy experiment. He claimed for his book the protection of all those to whom literature was dear, because it was a work of art-and a work of art, in the highest sense of the word, it undoubtedly is. Like Boccaccio, Rabelais, the Queen of Navarre, Ariosto, and Verville, the great author of The Human Comedy has painted an epoch.
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