Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot

La Comédie Humaine #23

Honoré de Balzac with Ellen Marriage (Translator)

212 pages first pub 1835 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing. Three lives intertwine in Paris: an old man, a criminal and a law student. The novel evokes an unstable period in France, when many were desperate to clim...

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