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A magical skin grants wishes, but shrinks your life away.
The Wild Ass's Skin
(La Peau de Chagrin)
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1977
Summary
Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140443301 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140443304 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Herbert Hunt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1977 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
129 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsuccessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850.
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