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The Magic Skin, with eBook
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Narrator
- John Bolen
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 8 June 2009
- Run Time
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him his every wish, but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of nineteenth-century France.
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Details
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Narrator
- John Bolen
- Duration
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 June 2009
- ISBN
- 9781400180868
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction, Occult fiction
Synopsis
"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it."Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him his every wish, but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of nineteenth-century France.
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