The Magic Skin
Honoré de Balzac
Narrator John Bolen
Publisher: Tantor Audio
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: —