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Father Goriot

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First published: 1835
Pages: 237

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02 - Section 02
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03 - Section 03
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04 - Section 04
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05 - Section 05
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06 - Section 06
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07 - Section 07
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08 - Section 08
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09 - Section 09
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10 - Section 10
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11 - Section 11
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12 - Section 12
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Set in a shabby Paris boarding house during the Bourbon Restoration, this novel binds together the fates of a retired merchant who has beggared himself for two ungrateful daughters, a hidden master criminal named Vautrin, and Eugene de Rastignac, a poor law student hungry for society's rewards. As Rastignac learns how Parisian wealth and status are really won, old Goriot's ruinous love plays out like a domestic version of King Lear. Balzac makes the house on the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve a whole social world in miniature. A cornerstone of La Comedie humaine, it introduces characters who reappear across the series and closes on one of literature's great declarations of ambition.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.