Pere Goriot
by Honore de Balzac
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
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
- Anubis Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F60009
- Title
- Pere Goriot
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pyramid Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 0.28 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Fiction; Vintage Paperbacks;
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