An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.
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J. Warren Kerrigan
Brandon McShane
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Wedgwood Nowell
Angus Burton
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Alice Wilson
Mimi Gascoigne
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Joseph J. Dowling
Shib Mizah
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