{"product_id":"2026100008683-secondhand-de-baldadige-vertelsels","title":"De Baldadige Vertelsels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: **DUTCH TEXT ONLY**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers have ever captured the ribald spirit of the French Renaissance with as much wit and audacity as Honoré de Balzac in De Baldadige Vertelsels — his celebrated collection known in French as Les Contes Drolatiques. Set in the ancient abbeys and manors of the Touraine region, this Dutch-language edition presents one hundred scandalous, bawdy, and wickedly funny tales modelled on the storytelling tradition of Rabelais, where monks, noblewomen, merchants, and kings collide in stories of lust, cunning, and comic misfortune. Translated into Dutch by A. M. de Jong and lavishly illustrated with the iconic engravings of Gustave Doré — including decorative lettering and vignettes — this edition is a magnificent fusion of literary craft and visual artistry.\n\nBalzac conceived Les Contes Drolatiques as an homage to the great storytellers of medieval and early modern France, and the result is a text that crackles with irreverent energy and linguistic bravado, standing apart from the realist novels for which he is best known. This sumptuous edition, printed by Aelderick Strengholt in Oud-Bussum in Anno Domini 1981, is a collector's treasure — a testament to the enduring power of stories that dare to celebrate human folly in all its gloriously imperfect splendour. Will Balzac's rogues and rascals seduce you as easily as they seduced their own unsuspecting quarry?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572439355611,"sku":"2026100008683-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1c6a57cb-042e-423f-a242-5dd8f5f1b98b.png?v=1791166551","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008683-secondhand-de-baldadige-vertelsels","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}