by Honoré de Balzac · French and European Publishing, Inc. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070409341
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«Le Père Goriot» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by French and European Publishing, Inc. in paperback, in French.
Rastignac, a young provincial staying at the Vauquer boarding house, grows close to Father Goriot, an old man ruined by devotion to his daughters. Le Père Goriot portrays, amid the intrigues of Parisian high society, ambition, paternal love, and the role of money in nineteenth-century Paris.
Le Père Goriot is the 23rd installment of the La Comédie Humaine series and was originally published in 1835. This edition from the Folio Classique collection includes a preface by Félicien Marceau.
For those who enjoy nineteenth-century classics and for students of French literature.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
