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by Honore De Balzac; Herbert J. Hunt (Translator); Introduction by Herbert J. Hunt


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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • Title The Wild Ass's Skin
  • Author Honore De Balzac; Herbert J. Hunt (Translator); Introduction by Herbert J. Hunt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1977-09-29
  • ISBN 9780140443301 / 0140443304
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.06 x 0.71 in (19.79 x 12.85 x 1.80 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects France - Social life and customs - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78302574
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

The son of a civil servant, Honor de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas pre and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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