Pere Goriot Mass market paperbound - 2004
by Honore De Balzac; Introduction by Peter Brooks; Afterword by Henry Reed
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entre" into La Comdie Humaine, his series of almost 100 novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization." Reissue.
Summary
Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac’s novels,” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting the whole pell-mell of civilization.” In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the bourgeois tragedy” of money and power from two different directions. While Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty to support his ambitious daughters, an impoverished young man of integrity becomes money hungry. Attracted to one of Goriot’s daughters, Rastignac succumbs to the fever of social climbing. The resulting tale is a commentary on wealth and human desire that still rings true in the twenty-first century.
Translated and with an Afterword by Henry Reed
and with an Introduction by Peter Brooks
Details
- Title Pere Goriot
- Author Honore De Balzac; Introduction by Peter Brooks; Afterword by Henry Reed
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book
- Date 2004-12-07
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780451529596 / 0451529596
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.88 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1180
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: French
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and daughters, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004055329
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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