# The Wild Ass's Skin

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- Book: [The Wild Ass's Skin](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/the-wild-asss-skin) ([The Wild Ass's Skin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/the-wild-asss-skin.md))
- Authors: [Honoré de Balzac](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-354-4
- Published: 1977-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.