Book
Type : Novel (320 pages)
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Genre : Realist
Date : 1831
Country of origin : France
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School : ESTP (Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics)
Age : 23 years old
Area of study : Civil engineering
City of study : Cachan
It was taught by a very good professor of French.
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. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac’s sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.
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