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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.
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Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch.
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Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer, Emeritus Student and former Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0192835696
- ISBN 13 9780192835697
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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