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Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

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First published
1835
Pages
237
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Read by James E. Carson · 11 h 44 min · 12 parts

  1. 01 - Section 01

    62:04

  2. 02 - Section 02

    58:18

  3. 03 - Section 03

    61:59

  4. 04 - Section 04

    60:30

  5. 05 - Section 05

    61:58

  6. 06 - Section 06

    61:34

  7. 07 - Section 07

    61:56

  8. 08 - Section 08

    62:18

  9. 09 - Section 09

    60:01

  10. 10 - Section 10

    61:34

  11. 11 - Section 11

    63:02

  12. 12 - Section 12

    28:53

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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.

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Book facts

First published
1835
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
237
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
James E. Carson