Pere Goriot
by Balzac, Honore De
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
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Connell, Washington, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- George Isbell (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012121
- Title
- Pere Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Qualith Binding; Fine Bindings.
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