Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus. This book is intended for students of French nineteenth-century literature, French studies, and the novel.
Pere Goriot
Summary
Set against the background of a society driven by greed and ambition, this is the tragic story of a father financially and personally ruined by his obsessive love for his two daughters. Balzac presents a portrait of both affluence and squalor in post-Napoleonic Paris.
Pere Goriot Summary
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GOR002687426
9780192828583
0192828584
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19911101
298
N/A
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