books.google.fr - The imaginative breadth and the intellectual depth of [this novel] make it one of the greatest of Balzac's "Etudes philosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece of shagreen, it expresses the peculiarly Balzacian idea of the human will and dramatizes with startling urgency the choice between...http://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Wild_Ass_s_Skin.html?hl=fr&id=t-177J2f12EC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Wild Ass's Skin
