Pere Goriot
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0451529596
- ISBN 13
- 9780451529596
- Seller
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Monroe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
unused book from closed bookstore inventory with a little bit of wear; clean, tight and square, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, text is clean and unmarked, pages and inside covers are lightly yellowed, corner tips are gently bumped
Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 501364
- Title
- Pere Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451529596
- ISBN 13
- 9780451529596
- Publisher
- Signet Book / New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 297
- Size
- 12mo - over 6 3/4 - 7 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- fiction, classic, wealth, human desire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General; Literature;