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The Wild Ass's Skin
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Wild Ass's Skin
Contributors:
By (Author) Honor de Balzac
Translated by Herbert Hunt
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publication Date:
1st November 1977
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Dimensions:
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
Weight:
213g
Description
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.
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.
