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The Wild Ass's Skin (Human Comedy)

The Wild Ass's Skin (Human Comedy)

by Honoré de Balzac (Author), Herbert Hunt (Translator)

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    Paperback 1977

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 30 Jun 1977
ISBN 10: 0140443304
ISBN 13: 9780140443301

Author Bio
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful 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.