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The first new English translation for more than 35 years of Balzac's extraordinary The Wild Ass's Skin, it is also the first edition in English to include Balzac's original Preface of 1831. This novel has been freshly translated by Helen Constantine, who captures Balzac's stylistic... Read Full Overview

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.

La Peau de chagrin (+Biographie et Bibliographie) (6X9po Finition Couverture Brillante): Le jeune aristocrate Rapha l de Valentin, apr s avoir perdu toute sa fortune pour payer les dettes de son p re, a l'intention de se suicider. Il rentre par hasard chez un antiquaire, o un... Read Full Overview

This volume contains a facsimile reprint of "The Magic Skin," by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). Born Honore Balzac, he was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Com die... Read Full Overview

Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.

Raphal de Valentin est un jeune marquis malchanceux, ruin et solitaire, au bord du suicide. Il doit sa survie un antiquaire, chez qui il trouve par hasard un talisman, une "peau de chagrin" cense exaucer le moindre de ses dsirs. Dsespr par son odieuse vie, le jeune homme dcide... Read Full Overview

The Magic Skin is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor? de Balzac (1799-1850). Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks... Read Full Overview

La piel de zapa es una novela ambientada en Par s a comienzos del siglo XIX. La obra cuenta la historia de un joven que recibe un pedazo de piel o cuero m gico que satisface cada uno de sus deseos. Sin embargo, por cada deseo concedido la piel se encoge y consume una porci n... Read Full Overview

La piel de zapa (en el original en franc s: La peau de chagrin) es una novela de 1831 del escritor y dramaturgo franc s Honor de Balzac (1799-1850). Ambientada en Par s a comienzos del siglo XIX, la obra cuenta la historia de un joven que recibe un pedazo de piel o cuero m gico... Read Full Overview

Le jeune aristocrate Rapha?l de Valentin, apr?s avoir perdu toute sa fortune pour payer les dettes de son p?re, a l'intention de se suicider. Il rentre par hasard chez un antiquaire, o? un vieil homme lui montre alors ? une peau de chagrin ? ayant le pouvoir d'exaucer tous les... Read Full Overview