"Hides and skins." . . "FICTION. Classics." . . "Hides and skins Fiction." . . "hoopla digital." . . "1800 - 1899" . . "FICTION. Literary." . . "France" . . "Tantor Media, Inc." . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Magic skin"@en . "The magic skin"@en . "Fantasy fiction"@en . . . "Children's audiobooks"@en . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . . . . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . "\"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it\". Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in time, he discovers the \"Magic Skin\" in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of 19th century France."@en . "\"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."@en . "Honoré de Balzac, who is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European fiction, first entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin, a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life."@en . . . . . . . . "Downloadable audiobooks"@en . "Fantasy fiction, French"@en . . . . "A poor writer is given a skin that will satisfy his every wish but with every wish the skin grows smaller until finally the man and his magic skin vanish."@en . . "Raphael is a failed writer in 19th century France who is deeply in debt and unrequited in love. Before he can drown himself in the Seine River, he disovers a \"magic skin\" in an antiquity shop with supernatural powers that can grant every wish, but extracts a terrible toll."@en . . . . . . . . "FICTION. Occult." . .