by Honoré de Balzac · Livre De Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253085799
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«Le Père Goriot» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Livre de Poche in paperback format (443 pages, in French).
The novel tells the tragic story of Goriot, a father ruined by obsessive love for his two daughters, and that of the young provincial aristocrat Rastignac, who arrives in Paris to make his fortune. A society dominated by ambition and thirst for wealth, where youthful illusions clash with a relentless world.
«Le Père Goriot» belongs to Balzac's cycle «La Comédie humaine» (position 23). Edition by Stéphane Vachon in the Classiques collection.
For lovers of classics, students of French literature, and those seeking a coming-of-age novel set in nineteenth-century Paris.
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.
