Pere Goriot is a novel by French author Honore de Balzac, first published in 1835. The story is set in Paris in the early 19th century and follows the lives of several characters, including the titular character, a retired vermicelli maker named Jean-Joachim Goriot. Goriot has sacrificed everything for his two daughters, who are both married to wealthy men but treat him with contempt. The novel explores themes of social mobility, greed, and the corrupting influence of money and power. The other characters include a young ...
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Pere Goriot is a novel by French author Honore de Balzac, first published in 1835. The story is set in Paris in the early 19th century and follows the lives of several characters, including the titular character, a retired vermicelli maker named Jean-Joachim Goriot. Goriot has sacrificed everything for his two daughters, who are both married to wealthy men but treat him with contempt. The novel explores themes of social mobility, greed, and the corrupting influence of money and power. The other characters include a young law student named Eugene de Rastignac, who becomes involved with a wealthy socialite named Delphine de Nucingen, and a criminal named Vautrin who attempts to manipulate and control them all. Balzac's writing style is known for its realism and attention to detail, and Pere Goriot is considered one of his most important works. It has been adapted into several films and television series, and remains a classic of French literature.1887. Balzac is considered to be the greatest name in the post-Revolutionary literature of France. His writings display a profound knowledge of the human heart, with an extraordinary range of knowledge. A classic example of the French realist novel, which 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. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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The characters are multi-talented, each are able to write and rewrite our understanding of them as pertains to their decisions and placing in life. Pere is at once a pitiful character and one that we can sympathize with as well as despise. He airs out the weakness of the human spirit and the author is honest in his confrontation of the Urbane consciousness!
