Old Goriot - Softcover

Balzac, Honoré De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141023392 ISBN 13: 9780141023397

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

Eugène wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In the city nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugène gets out of his depth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never have imagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Balzac's great theme was money, and he explored its uses and abuses with all the particularity of the masterful poet he was. Old Goriot, betrayed by rapacious daughters, and Rastignac, an ambitious provincial youth alive to his opportunities, form the twin foci around which the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s revolves, in this, his most economical and universally loved novel.

About the Author:

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) French journalist and writer, regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie Humaine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141023392
• ISBN 13: 9780141023397
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368