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The imaginative breadth and the intellectual depth of [this novel] make it one of the greatest of Balzac's "Etudes philosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece of shagreen, it expresses the peculiarly Balzacian idea of the human will and dramatizes with startling urgenc...

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Main Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Other Authors: Hunt, Herbert J., 1899-1973 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harmondsworth ; New York : Penguin, 1977.
Series:Penguin classics.
Subjects:
France > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
France > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Manners and customs.
France.
1800-1899
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Romans.
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