Shagren skin. Balzac Honore de

Rafael de Valentena is still very young, but was already disappointed in life, considering all his dreams unrealistic. He will never achieve success among the Parisian Bomond! And on the day, when despair has reached the limit, the young man receives an unusual talisman from a mysterious antiquar - a piece of shagren skin. Rafael is warned that the talisman fulfills all desires, but at the same time shortens the life of its owner: as a fee, shagen skin takes months and years. Nevertheless, it doesn’t work out to humble their desires, the price of which is high. a treatise clothed in an art form.