The Wild Ass's Skin (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Wild Ass's Skin "The Wild Ass's Skin" is Honor de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Rapha l de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfillment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy o...
Full description- Publisher: Digireads.com
- Published: 30 January 2009
- Format: Paperback 150 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781420934021 ISBN 10: 1420934023
- Sales rank: 541,092
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Full description for The Wild Ass's Skin
"The Wild Ass's Skin" is Honor de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Rapha l de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfillment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy of the wisher. "The Wild Ass's Skin" is at once both a work of incredible realism, in the descriptions of Parisian life and culture at the time, and also a work of supernatural fantasy, in the desires that are fulfilled by the wild ass's skin. Balzac uses this fantastical device masterfully to depict the complexity of the human nature in civilized society.
