Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Old Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPere Goriot (Owc)
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192835697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
Old Man Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141968575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.
Balzac: Old Goriot
Author: David BellosPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521327992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A new account of the novel's composition, structure and achievement provides readers with detailed literary and historical background and an explanation of how Balzac challenged prevailing expectations of the novel.
Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe New Southern Gentleman
Author: Jim BoothPublisher: Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN: 9780972178600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Father Goriot
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing. Three lives intertwine in Paris: an old man, a criminal and a law student. The novel evokes an unstable period in France, when many were desperate to climb the social ladder into the upper classes, and it questions social institutions such as marriage. The city is an important presence in this work. Balzac was both praised and censured for his realistic portrayal of city life.
Old Goriot (Pere Goriot)
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420931907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Considered to be one of Balzac's most important works, "Old Goriot", or "Père Goriot", is the story of its title character Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. We are introduced to the characters at Maison Vauquer, a boarding house owned by the widow Madame Vauquer. Central to the theme of the book is the struggle to achieve upper-class status in society. Rastignac is eager to achieve this upper-class standing but is unfamiliar to the ways of Parisian society. Vautrin tries to convince Rastignac to pursue an unmarried woman named Victorine, a dubious suggestion which involves the disposal of her brother who blocks the woman's fortune. The failings to achieve this upper-class status are exemplified by Goriot who has bankrupted himself to support his two well-married daughters, yet they reject him. A classic and tragic story, "Old Goriot" is one of the most pivotal works in Balzac's sweeping novel sequence "La Comédie Humaine", which endeavors to depict the effects of society on the entirety of the human condition.
Author: Honore de Balzac
Author: Honoré de Balzac