shagreen
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In the Shagreen Skin, which embodies some of Balzac's youthful experiences, Raphael, the hero, was saved from committing suicide, after ruining himself, by an accident which forms the thread of the story.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
An amusing expression of this self-praise has come down to us in the puff he composed on the occasion of a reprint of the Shagreen Skin by Gosselin in 1832.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
On account of its sensationalism, the Shagreen Skin had a success of curiosity equal, and, if anything, superior to that of the Physiology.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
The Shagreen Skin is judged as the admirable novels of Anne Radcliffe were judged.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
A Bible bound in Shagreen, with guilt Leaves and Clasps, never opened but once.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
