realistic-supernatural

Updated: January 29, 2026

Balzac's Peau de Chagrin is no doubt a great feat of the realistic-supernatural; but no one can help feeling how much the author is aided by his "broker's clerk" style of description, and by the familiar Parisian scenes among which he makes his hero move.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge