The Wild Ass's Skin

Nov 11, 2025 2:33 AM

Author:Honoré de Balzac,Herbert Hunt

The Wild Ass's Skin

Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.

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Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants

—— The Times

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton

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