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Original Title:	Le Père Goriot
ISBN:	039397166X (ISBN13: 9780393971668)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	La Comédie Humaine #23
Characters:	Eugène de Rastignac, Père Goriot, Vautrin, Delphine de Nucingen, Henri de Marsay, Horace Bianchon, Béatrix de Rochefide, Frederic de Nucingen, Anastasie de Restaud, Vicomtesse de Beauseant
Setting:	Paris(France)

Père Goriot (La Comédie Humaine #23) Paperback | Pages: 370 pages

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Title	:	Père Goriot (La Comédie Humaine #23)
Author	:	Honoré de Balzac
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 370 pages
Published	:	December 17th 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1835)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century. Novels

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Père 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 came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune. He befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for wealth.

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"Lord, this world of yours is so badly made!"- GoriotSupremely melodramatic, fierce, sweeping, lurid, and a little gay, Goriot is a kickass novel. The most famous of Balzac's encyclopedic Comédie humaine, a series of linked stories and 91 novels that I'm not sure has ever been paralleled, this installment crams into 300 pages about six different stories and a view of Parisian life in the early 1800s that swoops from bird's eye to microscopic detail, excluding nothing. "Paris is an ocean," says

Pere Goriot (1835), Honore de Balzac's novel centered on French society after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo and subsequent restoration of the Bourbons is impressively/exhaustively detailed. Through an analysis of families, marriage and institutions, Balzac presents fully realized characters from diverse backgrounds. When reading this novel, you do feel immersed in the upheaval of French society. That immersion extends to the characters, so many characters--their motivations, social climbing

April 16, 2017I am still reading but these excerpts that I wish to record will not fit in the progress status box.Love in Paris is a thing distinct and apart; for in Paris neither men nor women are the dupes of the commonplaces by which people seek to throw a veil over their motives, or to parade a fine affectation of disinterestedness in their sentiments. ... Love ... is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan. ... Love is a

Another of the great books written by Balzac with one of his favourite characters, the ambitious Rastignac and the mega-villain Vautrin (who would give the Joker a run for his money!) is a page turner. It was also an inspiration to Mario Puzo when he wrote The Godfather. Like Illusions Perdues, it is a bildungsroman where Rastignac rises to power (and later as an old man becomes the protagonist of Le Peau de Chagrin). One of the high points of 19th C French literature, this book is a fascinating

A very accessible novel with too much melodrama. Balzac had clearly expounded in his seminal work the vanity and selfishness of the Parisian community of 19th century. But the veritable theme- Fatherhood- is indeed a subject that touches your innermost self. I'm glad I have read Balzac.

I am seventeen.There are a bunch of us in a nondescript classroom within an office building in the industrial northeast.It is our final day of Transcendental Meditation class and we are about to receive our mantra.One of the mentors, an old man (probably thirty years or less) leans over and whispers in my ear a short, unfamiliar sound.We are to fixate on it, repeat it, over and again, for eighteen minutes. We are instructed to rid ourselves of all other thoughts that attempt to creep in and to

A beautiful classic that everyone loves but not for me.I loved the "Peau de chagrin" - by Balzac - my best essay at university. A true shame in this respect and I must confess it bothers me. All I can say is that tastes change with time...