Shagreen

The bathroom cabinets are made from pale green Shagreen.

Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight Dana Rubinstein 2011

In September, the Shagreen Skin, arranged by Judicis, was played at the Ambigu-Comique, with tableaux of almost literal imitation, yet bringing to life again, in the denouement, the chief dramatis personae, and making the whole drama a dream.

Balzac 2003

On account of its sensationalism, the Shagreen Skin had

Balzac 2003

_Mysteries of Udolpho_ and the _Shagreen Skin_, the _Arabian Nights_, and Monsieur de Balzac.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

Balzac appears to have been introduced to the Duchess d'Abrantes about the year 1830, when he was engaged in writing his _Shagreen Skin_, which, out of the numerous pieces of fiction produced within this and the next twelve months, added most to his notoriety, though inferior to such stories as the _House of the Tennis-playing Cat_, and even to the _Sceaux Ball_ in the more proper qualities of the novel.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

On account of its sensationalism, the _Shagreen Skin_ had a success of curiosity equal, and, if anything, superior to that of the

Balzac Frederick Lawton

His correspondent, a lady, who had read, she said, and admired his _Scenes of Private Life_, reproached him with losing, in the _Shagreen Skin_, the delicacy of sentiment contained in these earlier novels, and begged him to forsake his ironic, sceptical manner and revert to the higher manifestations of his talent.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

In September, the _Shagreen Skin_, arranged by Judicis, was played at the Ambigu-Comique, with _tableaux_ of almost literal imitation, yet bringing to life again, in the denouement, the chief _dramatis personae_, and making the whole drama

Balzac Frederick Lawton

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.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

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.

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910