Père Goriot / Honoré de Balzac

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Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850). Auteur

Edited by Oxford University Press - 2009

From the Publisher: A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entree" into La Comedie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization
Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot was has spent most of his fortune on his two daughters, Anastasie de Restaud and Delphine de Nucingen, and his poverty makes him a subject of mockery amongst the other boarders. Rastignac meets the daughters, and hopes to use the rivalry between the sisters to his advantage. He begins to sink into debt, even as he falls in love with Delphine. Vautrin, an ex-convict, leads Rastignac into plots that lead to a death

Introduction. Note on the text. Select bibliography. Chronology of Honore de Balzac. Pere Goriot. 1: Family boarding house. 2: Entry on the social scene. 3: Death-dodger. 4: Father's death. Map of Paris at the restoration. Explanatory notes.

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