The Skin of Sorrow by Honoré de Balzac

258 pages first pub 1831 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
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The young aristocrat Raphael de Valentin, after losing all his fortune to pay his father's debts, intends to commit suicide. He comes by chance to an antique dealer, where an old man shows him "a skin of sorrow" with the power to grant all the wis...

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