Pere Goriot.: With the Illustrations of Albert Lynch.
by DE BALZAC, HONORE
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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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- Time Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121323
- Title
- Pere Goriot.
- Author
- DE BALZAC, HONORE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library; 1980.
- Keywords
- french novel literature
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