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  Pere Goriot (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback) By (author) Honore de Balzac

  

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  Short Description for Pere GoriotThis outstanding French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with that of a father whose obsessive love leads to personal and financial ruin. "The modern "King Lear."" -- Leslie Stephen.
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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
  • Published: 29 October 2004
  • Format: Paperback 210 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780486436982 ISBN 10: 0486436985
  • Sales rank: 66,068

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• A kind-hearted and idealistic youth enters the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s, where his education in the realities and costs of city life begin among the residents of a shabby but respectable boardinghouse. Acclaimed by Leslie Stephen as "the modern "King Lear, "" it offers a timeless view of the tragedies behind the prosaic details of everyday life.