Honore de Balzac

ÊLe Pere Goriot is a novel written by French novelist and playwright HonorŽ de Balzac in 1835. It is included in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. The story takes place in Paris in 1819 and has thee crossing lives of three characters: a naive law student named Eugene de Rastignac, the elderly doting Goriot, and a mysterious criminal named Vautrin. It is considered the most important novel of Balzac. He used in this series his distinguished fiction technique of using characters from other books. The story is also considered as example of his realist style, using very detailed description. The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought changes to French society. Major theme in the book is conflict of individuals to gain a higher status in life.

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Honoré de Balzac

"Father Goriot" by Honoré de Balzac (translated by Ellen Marriage). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Honoré de Balzac, original name Honoré Balssa, (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France-died August 18, 1850, Paris), French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. Le Père Goriot, (French: "Father Goriot") novel by Honoré de Balzac, originally published in French in the Revue de Paris in 1834 and published in book form in 1835. The novel is considered one of the best works of Balzac's panoramic series La Comédie humaine ("The Human Comedy"), and it was the first to feature characters that would reappear in later novels. This pessimistic case study of bourgeois society's ills after the French Revolution tells the intertwined stories of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious but penniless young man, and old Goriot, a father who sacrifices everything for his children.

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