Pere Goriot - Scenes from Parisian Life
by Honore De Balzac
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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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
- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6793
- Title
- Pere Goriot - Scenes from Parisian Life
- Author
- Honore De Balzac
- Illustrator
- Lynch, Engraved By E Abot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 240x170mm
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