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Download or read book Droll Tales written by Iris Smyles and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and surreal interconnected stories that transcend time and rationality, from America's most original writer.
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Honore de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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Download or read book Droll Stories — Complete written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of humorous French short stories, examining french life and social customs. Balzac (!799-1850) was a journalist, critic and writer much acclaimed in his life and afterwards.
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Book Synopsis Droll Stories – Complete by : Оноре де Бальзак
Download or read book Droll Stories – Complete written by Оноре де Бальзак and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Complete) by : Honore de Balzac
Download or read book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Complete) written by Honore de Balzac and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archbishop of Bordeaux had added to his suite when going to the Council at Constance quite a good-looking little priest of Touraine whose ways and manner of speech was so charming that he passed for a son of La Soldee and the Governor. The Archbishop of Tours had willingly given him to his confrere for his journey to that town, because it was usual for archbishops to make each other presents, they well knowing how sharp are the itchings of theological palms. Thus this young priest came to the Council and was lodged in the establishment of his prelate, a man of good morals and great science. Philippe de Mala, as he was called, resolved to behave well and worthily to serve his protector, but he saw in this mysterious Council many men leading a dissolute life and yet not making less, nay —gaining more indulgences, gold crowns and benefices than all the other virtuous and well-behaved ones. Now during one night—dangerous to his virtue—the devil whispered into his ear that he should live more luxuriously, since every one sucked the breasts of our Holy Mother Church and yet they were not drained, a miracle which proved beyond doubt the existence of God. And the priest of Touraine did not disappoint the devil. He promised to feast himself, to eat his bellyful of roast meats and other German delicacies, when he could do so without paying for them as he was poor. As he remained quite continent (in which he followed the example of the poor old archbishop who sinned no longer because he was unable to, and passed for a saint,) he had to suffer from intolerable desires followed by fits of melancholy, since there were so many sweet courtesans, well developed, but cold to the poor people, who inhabited Constance, to enlighten the understanding of the Fathers of the Council. He was savage that he did not know how to make up to these gallant sirens, who snubbed cardinals, abbots, councillors, legates, bishops, princes and margraves just as if they have been penniless clerks. And in the evening, after prayers, he would practice speaking to them, teaching himself the breviary of love. He taught himself to answer all possible questions, but on the morrow if by chance he met one of the aforesaid princesses dressed out, seated in a litter and escorted by her proud and well-armed pages, he remained open-mouthed, like a dog in the act of catching flies, at the sight of sweet countenance that so much inflamed him. The secretary of a Monseigneur, a gentleman of Perigord, having clearly explained to him that the Fathers, procureurs, and auditors of the Rota bought by certain presents, not relics or indulgences, but jewels and gold, the favour of being familiar with the best of these pampered cats who lived under the protection of the lords of the Council; the poor Touranian, all simpleton and innocent as he was, treasured up under his mattress the money given him by the good archbishop for writings and copying—hoping one day to have enough just to see a cardinal’s lady-love, and trusting to God for the rest. He was hairless from top to toe and resembled a man about as much as a goat with a night-dress on resembles a young lady, but prompted by his desires he wandered in the evenings through the streets of Constance, careless of his life, and, at the risk of having his body halberded by the soldiers, he peeped at the cardinals entering the houses of their sweethearts. Then he saw the wax-candles lighted in the houses and suddenly the doors and the windows closed.
Book Synopsis Droll Stories — Volume 1 by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Droll Stories — Volume 1 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Droll Tales written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Droll Stories – Volume 2 written by Оноре де Бальзак and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ten Droll Tales written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Droll Stories – Volume 3 by : Оноре де Бальзак
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Book Synopsis A Manual for Cleaning Women by : Lucia Berlin
Download or read book A Manual for Cleaning Women written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016 A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. "Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis
Book Synopsis Dating Tips for the Unemployed by : Iris Smyles
Download or read book Dating Tips for the Unemployed written by Iris Smyles and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Believer’s Best Books of the Year: One woman’s journey through that awkward period between being born and dying. A modern odyssey about trying to find one’s home in the world, this collection of wickedly funny and offbeat vignettes touches upon quantum physics; the Donner Party; arctic exploration; Greek mythology; Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and III respectively; and literary immortality. Dating Tips for the Unemployed “melds novel, autobiography, and all manner of asides as [the author] flails at art, love, and friendship with the wry intelligence of someone just wise enough to realize they have no idea what they’re doing. A flat-out joy to read” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “In engaging episodes, Iris-the-character neurotically navigates dating in New York City, smokes pot on Greek islands with hapless lovers, drinks too much, deals with disapproving family, and eats a lot of cannoli. Smyles’s surreal, lyrical voice elevates these everyday scenarios into the realm of the fantastic and absurd. Included in the book are hilariously stylized advertisements full of false promises, such as ‘Health Secrets of the Roman Empire’ and ‘Have Your Portrait Painted By An Elephant!’ all for a price. Smyles is sharp, melancholy, and wickedly funny. She is unafraid to reveal and revel in her character’s flaws because it is what makes them so achingly, relatably human.” —Interview “Something like a cocktail of Dorothy Parker, James Joyce, and Philip Roth iced, sweetened, and blended.” —The Nervous Breakdown “Whimsy, satire, and rollicking social commentary . . . Ms. Smyles is a misanthrope-of-the-people, a standout on the order of Fran Lebowitz.” —The East Hampton Star
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Droll Stories written by Honore de Balzac and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Droll Stories V. 1 by Honore de Balzac is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition