Pere Goriot
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2004
Summary
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac‘s "real entree" into La Comedie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451529596 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451529596 |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
| Author: | Honore De Balzac |
| Publisher: | Signet Book |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 107mm x 173mm |
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“The greatest novelist who ever lived.”-W. Somerset Maugham
“The greatest novelist who ever lived.”–W. Somerset Maugham “A man of genius.”–Victor Hugo
About The Author
Honore De Balzac
A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France’s greatest fiction writers.
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