Download or read book Wild Ass Skin and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) is set in early 19th-century Paris and tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Although the novel uses fantastic elements, its main focus is a realistic portrayal of the excesses of bourgeois materialism. Balzac's renowned attention to detail is used to describe a gambling house, an antique shop, a royal banquet, and other locales. He also includes details from his own life as a struggling writer, placing the main character in a home similar to the one he occupied at the start of his literary career. The central theme of La Peau de chagrin is the conflict between desire and longevity. The magic skin represents the owner's life-force, which is depleted through every expression of will, especially when it is employed for the acquisition of power. Ignoring a caution from the shopkeeper who offers him the skin, the protagonist greedily surrounds himself with wealth, only to find himself miserable and decrepit at the story's end. (source: Wikipedia)
Download or read book The Wild Ass s Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prince of Bohemia and Other Stories written by Honor ̌de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prince of Bohemia and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories written by Honoré Balzac and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of the author’s most highly regarded stories, newly translated: the title story, "An Episode During the Terror," and "Facino Cane."
Download or read book The Devil s Pool and Other Stories written by George Sand and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly translated into English, "The Devil's Pool" is the most popular of George Sand's novellas and her best-selling work in France today. Illustrating Sand's brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, the tale deals with many of her characteristic themes—the relations between the sexes, the plight of the underprivileged, and the role of fantasy in human life—making it an ideal introduction to her work. Also included are translations of two of Sand's most admired short stories, "Lavinia" and "The Unknown God," as well as various relevant essays and documents.
Download or read book The wild ass s skin The quest of the absolute written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muse of the department A prince of Bohemia and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Skin written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin.
Download or read book The Wild Ass Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, acclaimed author Honoré de Balzac explores the follies and foibles of human nature. From the delusions of a madman to the schemes of petty criminals, these tales will keep you captivated from beginning to end. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Honor de Balzac in twenty five volumes The wild ass s skin The quest of the absolute written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Fatal Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1949 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Bent on killing himself by throwing himself into the Seine after losing his shirt at the gaming tables, Raphael de Valentin, the romanticised, doomed young hero of Balzac's early novel, 'La Peau de chagrin' (1831), turns into an antiques shop to while away the hours till darkness (when he can be sure not to be rescued). There he finds himself in an emporium of civilisation's treasures, from all over the world and in every marvellous material, executed to the highest degree of human art. Eventually, the eerie, wizened keeper appears and shows Valentin the magic skin which gives the novel its title. It's the hide of a wild ass and, like the ring of the Nibelungen, has the power to grant its owner every wish. But in return it will take possession of Valentin, body and soul. Every time it performs, it will shrink and Valentin's life will shorten in accord.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario on November 1 1912 written by Ontario. Legislative Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Sign of the Cat and Racket written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
