The Wild Ass's Skin

by Honore de Balzac, Herbert Hunt (Translator)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141913544
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	06/30/1977
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

...[t]his edition is a model of its kind and is to be welcomed in the distinguished series of Oxford World's Classics. - Barbara Wright, Nineteenth-Century French Studies University of Nebraska Press)

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