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Old Goriot (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

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Old Goriot (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

HonorÃ© de Balzacâ€™s great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country,Â EugÃ¨ne de Rastignac.Â Â

Rastignac is appalled at first by the greed and corruption he finds in Paris, but he soon sets his sights on conquering high society. He joins forces with the array of schemers who surround him, while the suffering, self-sacrificing Goriot yearns in vain for his daughtersâ€™ love. The sprawling, vibrant, and turbulent Paris of the post-Napoleonic era is itself a major character in the novel, an emblem of the social upheaval that Balzac portrays so brilliantly. Old Goriot was the first of Balzacâ€™s novels to employ his famous technique of recurring characters, and it has come to be seen as the keystone in his grand project, The Human Comedy.

Translated by Ellen MarriageÂ

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Country	USA
Author	Honore de Balzac
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: Everyman's Library
EAN	9780679405351
Edition	Reprint
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0679405356
Label	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	272
PublicationDate	1991-11-26
Publisher	Everyman's Library
ReleaseDate	1991-11-26
Studio	Everyman's Library

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