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The Magic Skin

Honoré de Balzac

Narrator John Bolen

Publisher: Tantor Audio

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Summary

"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.
Duration: about 10 hours (09:58:32)
Publishing date: 2009-06-08; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2009. Copyright Statment: —