Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Author: Honoré de BalzacPere Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486436982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This outstanding French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with that of a father whose obsessive love leads to personal and financial ruin. "The modern King Lear." ? Leslie Stephen.
Old Man Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141968575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
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.
The New Southern Gentleman
Author: Jim BoothPublisher: Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN: 9780972178600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"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
Author: Honoré de BalzacOld Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439513460
Category : Boardinghouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eugene Rastignac, a young law student living in a boarding house, meets fellow lodger, Goriot, a ruined merchant who receives occasional secret visits from his daughters
Author: Honoré de BalzacPere Goriot
Author: Honore BalzacPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162558489X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the simple and proper old brownstone New York, low in style but high in principle, and the achingly beautiful but decadent Saint-Germain district of Paris. The issue is seamlessly joined.
Author: Honoré de Balzac