Droll Stories: Thirty Stories by Honore de Balzac (The Heritage Press)

US$10.24

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Slipcase: Good. 1939. The Heritage Press. Illustrated.

Illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. Translation by Jacques Le Clercq.

a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French.