Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Title | Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet PDF eBook |
Author | Honore de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1950 |
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Old Goriot
Title | Old Goriot PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1926 |
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Old Man Goriot
Title | Old Man Goriot PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2011-01-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141968575 |
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
Title | Balzac: Old Goriot PDF eBook |
Author | David Bellos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1987-11-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521316347 |
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.
Old Goriot
Title | Old Goriot PDF eBook |
Author | Honore de Balzac |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 1991-11-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679405356 |
Honoré de Balzac’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, Eugène de Rastignac. 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 daughters’ 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 Balzac’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 Marriage (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
La Comédie Humaine
Title | La Comédie Humaine PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 406 |
Release | 1896 |
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The New Southern Gentleman
Title | The New Southern Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Booth |
Publisher | Watchmaker Publishing |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780972178600 |
"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