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1) Old Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator...
2) Père Goriot
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From the Publisher: 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."
Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot...
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Eugène de Rastignac, étudiant sans fortune, est prêt à tout pour s'élever dans la bonne société parisienne. À la pension Vauquer, où il loge, il se prend d'affection pour le père Goriot, un riche retraité qui se ruine pour satisfaire les appétits de ses deux filles. Son destin tragique va révéler au jeune ambitieux le cruel visage du monde dans lequel il s'efforce d'entrer. Jusqu'où l'amour paternel peut-il conduire un homme?
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