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| #9607259 in Books | 1944-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.30 x5.50l,1.59 | File type: PDF | 576 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Dated and boring|By medfair|I have to admit that I have not managed to read more than a sixth of this book. It is very well written (if you accept the archaic style) and the subject was supposed to be funny, usually the virtue of losing virtue. Alas, like Yogi Berra's famous quote - "It's deja vu all over again". Once you've read Chaucer or Boccaccio, it seems as novel and tast||
|"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." Marcel Proust||"[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." Henry James||One of the first among the greatest, one
This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the original. "In his preface," wrote Professor George Saintsbury, "Balzac acknowledged his indebtedness to his master Rabelais; and, to be sure, the points of likeness between those two great Frenchmen are striking. They both put on a mask of comedy and rakishness in order to write...
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