Old Goriot
Author(s): Honore de Balzac
Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves?
Product Information
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.229
- : 25 April 1974
- : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Honore de Balzac
- : Paperback
- : 843.7
- : 304