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This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.

Escrito en 1834 para la Revue de Paris y publicada en 1835 en forma de libro. Considerada una de las obras m s importantes del autor, forma parte de las Escenas de la vida privada de la Comedia humana. En ella se analiza la naturaleza de la familia, el matrimonio, la estratificaci... Read Full Overview

A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's 'real entr?e' into La Com?die Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict 'the whole pell-mell of civilization.'

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris.

"Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac's immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, ?mile Zola, and... Read Full Overview

"Pere Goriot" perhaps deserves to be ranked as that one of Balzac's novels which has united the greatest number of suffrages, and which exhibits his peculiar merits, not indeed without any of his faults, but with the merits in eminent, and the faults not in glaring, degree. It... Read Full Overview

'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who comes to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, and... Read Full Overview

Honor de Balzac was one of France's most important writers in the 19th century, thanks to his seminal La Comdie humaine, a hodgepodge collection of stories and novels that depicts French life after the Napoleonic era from a contemporary standpoint. His writing style also influenced... Read Full Overview

'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends... Read Full Overview

Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. An early work in his La Com die humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzac's most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear... Read Full Overview