The Wild Ass’s Skin

By Honore de Balzac
Introduction by Herbert J. Hunt
Translated by Herbert J. Hunt

Part of The Human Comedy

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The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac

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About The Wild Ass’s Skin

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.

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About Honore de Balzac

The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms,… More about Honore de Balzac

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Sep 29, 1977 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780140443301

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