The Magic Skin
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TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido: - text
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- Produced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Peau_de_chagrin
Release date is 2005-02-12
Produced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger
"The Magic Skin" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it follows a young man who discovers a magical piece of shagreen that grants his every wish. However, each desire fulfilled causes the skin to shrink and drains his physical energy. The novel explores the conflict between desire and longevity, examining bourgeois materialism through Balzac's detailed portrayal of Parisian society. It established Balzac as a significant French writer. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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