The Magic Skin
Honoré de Balzac
0 pages, Audio CD
ISBN: 1400100305
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Language: English
Publish: April 15, 2001
19th CenturyClassicsFantasyFictionFranceFrench LiteratureLiteratureNovelsRomanSchool
“The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it.” Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in time, he discovers the “Magic Skin” in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of 19th century France.