Harvard’s Houghton Library made news when the library announced that it possessed Arsene Houssaye’s Destinies of the Soul bound in human skin.The French novelist, who was grieving his wife’s ...
The book in question is Des Destinées de L’âme, or Destinies of the Soul, which was written by French author Arsène Houssaye in 1879. Philanthropist and businessman John B. Stetson ...