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This volume contains a facsimile reprint of "The Magic Skin," by Honore deBalzac (1799-1850). Born Honore Balzac, he was a nineteenth-century Frenchnovelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence of almost 100novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comédie humaine." Balzac is generallyregarded as a founding father of realism in European literature, and many of hisworks have been mimicked for the past hundred years.