Honoré de Balzac, Helen Constantine, Patrick Coleman

The Wild Ass's Skin

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 288 Seiten

ISBN 0199579504

EAN 9780199579501

Veröffentlicht Juni 2012

Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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).

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