Père Goriot
by DE BALZAC, Honoré
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0717200019
- ISBN 13
- 9780717200016
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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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- Title
- Père Goriot
- Author
- DE BALZAC, Honoré
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0717200019
- ISBN 13
- 9780717200016
- Publisher
- Grolier
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [no date]
- Keywords
- FrenchLiterature
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