Wild Ass's Skin

Name: Wild Ass's Skin
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ISBN: 9780199579501

ISBN-10: 0199579504

ISBN-13: 9780199579501

Edition: 2012

Authors: Helen Constantine, Patrick Coleman, Honorï¿½ de Balzac

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'Who possesses me will possess all things,But his life will belong to me...'Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with magical properties. It will grant its possessor his every wish, but each time a wish is bestowed the skin shrinks, hastening its owner's death. Around this fantastic premiseBalzac weaves a compelling psychological portrait of his hero, a prisoner of his own Promethean imagination, and explores…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 6/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.68" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Patrick Coleman is a professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.