Père Goriot

Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850

Book - 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."

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Subjects
Older men > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Boardinghouses > France > Paris > Fiction.
Paris (France) > Fiction.
France > History > Louis XVIII, 1814-1824 > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Genres
Bildungsromans
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press [2009]
Language
English
French
Main Author
Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850 (author)
Other Authors
A. J. Krailsheimer (translator)
Physical Description
xxiv, 274 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780199538751
  • 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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