by Honoré de Balzac · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422654551
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«Papá Goriot» is the realist novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (282 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Goriot, ruined by indulging his two daughters, lives in a Parisian boarding house while they squander their fortune on lovers and luxuries. In that same setting, the young student Eugène de Rastignac discovers the ambitions and miseries of French high society before the Revolution.
Work belonging to «La Comedia Humana», Balzac's narrative series. In this edition of the Biblioteca Universal del Círculo de Lectores, the Clásicos Franceses collection was directed by Martín de Riquer.
Recommended for readers of classic European fiction seeking a portrait of the ambitions and moral decay of 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.
