Droll Stories
Original title: Les contes drôlatiques
earliest edition we have, 1928 Echo Library, 2000 paperback 296 pages
Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIII, Französische Sprache und Literatur,
A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interp...
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