The Wild Ass's Skin

Zusatztext A model of its kind Informationen zum Autor Helen Constantine taught languages in schools before becoming a full-time translator. She has published three volumes of translated stories for OUP, Paris Tales, French Tales, and Paris Metro Tales. She has translated Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin and Laclos' Dangerous Liaisons for Penguin, and with her husband David Constantine, edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. Patrick Coleman's books include editions of Rousseau's Confessions and Discourse on Inequality and Constant's Adolphe for Oxford World's Classics, and Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer (Oxford, 2011). Klappentext A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating introduction and notes. Zusammenfassung A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating introduction and notes.

Product details

• Authors: Honor^D'e de Balzac, Honor´e de Balzac, HONORE DE BALZAC, Honoré de Balzac, Patrick Coleman, Helen Constantine
• Assisted by: Helen Constantine (Translation), Constantine Helen (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199579501
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957950-1
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form