Old Father Goriot
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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About This Item
Old Father Goriot by Honore De Balzac
Collins - Clear-Type Press, n.d. circa 1920s. Hardcover 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Crimson cloth, gilt titles design on the spine. With illustrations by J. E. Sutcliffe. 344 pp, with a list of Collins' titles in the rear. A vintage book, unmarked and in very good condition, with a slight lean to the spine.
About the book: Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.
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- Bookseller
- Camphor Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio979
- Title
- Old Father Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Illustrator
- J. E. Sutcliffe
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins Clear Type
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. circa 1920
- Pages
- 344
- Size
- 16mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Balzac, Pere Goriot, corruption, Paris, French Revolution, society, love story, illustrated books, Paris, Parisian society
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- Gilt
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