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Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Wild Ass's Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin. The Hidden Masterpiece written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden masterpiece: the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both.
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775453561
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honore de Balzac and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous perfectionist Honore de Balzac labored for years to bring the fascinating idea behind The Magic Skin to life in a novel, and critics and fans alike agree that it is one of the French writer's masterworks. The story follows the experiences of a young man who finds a small piece of animal skin that magically fulfills his every desire. However, over time, he discovers that the seeming miracle has exacted a terrible toll on his body -- and his soul.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406506600
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (Dodo Press) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Balzac entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (1831), a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life.
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781692752453
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honore de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Skin is a novel by Honor� de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
Author : Nonorè de Balzac
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
ISBN 13 : 655894572X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (589 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin - Balzac written by Nonorè de Balzac and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoré de Balzac is considered the founder of Realism in modern literature. His magnum opus, La Comédie Humaine, consists of 95 novels, novellas, and short stories that seek to portray French society of his time. The Magic Skin, which is part of La Comédie Humaine, tells the story of young Raphael, who receives a piece of wild ass's skin from an old antique dealer. The skin grants Raphael's wishes, but also shortens his life. With the talisman in his possession, the protagonist fulfills all his desires, becomes wealthy, and a respected figure in society, all while living in terror as he watches the skin shrink and his life ebb away with each fulfilled wish. Like numerous other works by Balzac, The Magic Skin is a critique of a society focused solely on the accumulation of material goods and power.
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781695664708
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (647 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honore de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) is set in early 19th-century Paris and tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Although the novel uses fantastic elements, its main focus is a realistic portrayal of the excesses of bourgeois materialism. Balzac's renowned attention to detail is used to describe a gambling house, an antique shop, a royal banquet, and other locales. He also includes details from his own life as a struggling writer, placing the main character in a home similar to the one he occupied at the start of his literary career. The central theme of La Peau de chagrin is the conflict between desire and longevity. The magic skin represents the owner's life-force, which is depleted through every expression of will, especially when it is employed for the acquisition of power. Ignoring a caution from the shopkeeper who offers him the skin, the protagonist greedily surrounds himself with wealth, only to find himself miserable and decrepit at the story's end.
Author : Honore De Balzac
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781096608226
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honore De Balzac and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) is set in early 19th-century Paris and tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Although the novel uses fantastic elements, its main focus is a realistic portrayal of the excesses of bourgeois materialism. Balzac's renowned attention to detail is used to describe a gambling house, an antique shop, a royal banquet, and other locales. He also includes details from his own life as a struggling writer, placing the main character in a home similar to the one he occupied at the start of his literary career. The central theme of La Peau de chagrin is the conflict between desire and longevity. The magic skin represents the owner's life-force, which is depleted through every expression of will, especially when it is employed for the acquisition of power. Ignoring a caution from the shopkeeper who offers him the skin, the protagonist greedily surrounds himself with wealth, only to find himself miserable and decrepit at the story's end.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Signet Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1949 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Bent on killing himself by throwing himself into the Seine after losing his shirt at the gaming tables, Raphael de Valentin, the romanticised, doomed young hero of Balzac's early novel, 'La Peau de chagrin' (1831), turns into an antiques shop to while away the hours till darkness (when he can be sure not to be rescued). There he finds himself in an emporium of civilisation's treasures, from all over the world and in every marvellous material, executed to the highest degree of human art. Eventually, the eerie, wizened keeper appears and shows Valentin the magic skin which gives the novel its title. It's the hide of a wild ass and, like the ring of the Nibelungen, has the power to grant its owner every wish. But in return it will take possession of Valentin, body and soul. Every time it performs, it will shrink and Valentin's life will shorten in accord.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The magic skin. Christ in Flanders. Melmoth reconciled written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic skin From Honoré de Balzac
Author : Honoré De Balzac
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981493968
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré De Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sijie Dai
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 037541309X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress written by Sijie Dai and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620118269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin, Or, The Wild Ass's Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Marriage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Honoré de Balzac - The Magic Skin written by Ellen Marriage and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Balzac entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (1831), a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life. Includes a biography of the author.
