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 with more freedom about manners, customs, politics and religion."
- ISBN10 0586067094
- ISBN13 9780586067093
- Publish Date 21 November 1985 (first published 1 December 1944)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English