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Pere Goriot: A Classic Novel of Ambition, Family, and Parisian Society
Paperback
Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604593006
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Père Goriot is one of Honoré de Balzac's central novels and a defining work of nineteenth-century French realism. Set in a shabby Paris boarding house, the novel brings together the ruined and devoted Père Goriot, the ambitious young law student Eugène de Rastignac, and the brilliant, dangerous Vautrin, whose presence exposes the ruthless moral economy of Parisian society. Through their intersecting lives, Balzac creates a powerful study of family obligation, social climbing, money, status, and the sacrifices demanded by ambition.
As part of Balzac's vast fictional world, La Comédie humaine, Père Goriot helped establish the modern social novel, combining intimate domestic tragedy with a broad portrait of class, corruption, and urban life. Its depiction of Paris as a place where affection, inheritance, desire, and advancement are constantly traded against one another remains one of the great achievements of classic European fiction. For readers of French literature, nineteenth-century realism, and literary classics, Père Goriot remains an essential Balzac novel and a lasting portrait of ambition, parental devotion, and moral compromise.
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