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'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with magical properties. It will grant its possessor his every wish, but each time a wish is bestowed the
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- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140443301
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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