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Old Goriot (Everyman's Library)
by de Balzac, Honore
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1857150376
- ISBN 13
- 9781857150377
- Seller
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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Distributed by Random Century Group, 1991. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Beautiful burgundy colored boards with gold lettering within a black box on the spine. Burgundy cloth ribbon. The dust jacket has just a little shelfwear and a little soiling on the white background. The jacket is in new mylar.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction, Classics.
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
- funyettabooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045809
- Title
- Old Goriot (Everyman's Library)
- Author
- de Balzac, Honore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1857150376
- ISBN 13
- 9781857150377
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random Century Group
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, Classics
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