Pere Goriot (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Balzac, Honore de
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1593082851
- ISBN 13
- 9781593082857
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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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- Magers and Quinn Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1405006
- Title
- Pere Goriot (Barnes & Noble Classics)
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1593082851
- ISBN 13
- 9781593082857
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- July 1, 2005
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