Les Cent contes drolatiques II: Second dixain

Les Cent contes drolatiques - second dixain is Balzac's second volume of a collection of ribald short stories inspired by Rabelais, Boccacio, La Fontaine and other classics of the genre. The text is that of the 1833 edition. The book comes with a cd-rom containing an extensive critical apparatus established by Andrew Oliver a well-known Balzac scholar.