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Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
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Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) was his next...
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Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old...
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Le Père 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.
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Chapter 1. For 30 years, a widow named Madame Vauquer has run a shabby yet respectable boarding house in an obscure, downscale Paris neighborhood. In the winter of 1819, seven boarders are living there.
Wikipedia Entries for Pere Goriot. Pere Goriot study guide contains a biography of Honore de Balzac, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
Old Goriot was the first of Balzac’s novels to employ his famous technique of recurring characters, and it has come to be seen as the keystone in his grand project, The Human Comedy. Translated by Ellen Marriage.
