Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honore de Balzac. An early work in his La Comedie humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzacs most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear throughout his other books and is considered to be the first novel in which he perfected his hallmark realist style.The novel, set in Paris, follows Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student who lives at a boarding house owned by a widow named Madame Vauquer. Her other residents include JeanJoachim Goriot, a retired businessman whose fortune has been spent on his two adult daughters, and Vautrin, a hardened and mysterious criminal. As Rastignac navigates urban life, he develops a fascination with high society that soon turns into an unhealthy obsession with joining the ranks of the wealthy. Although he falls in love with Goriots daughter Delphine, a married woman, Rastignac is pressured by Vautrin to court the young unmarried Victorine. Proposing they attempt to steal her familys fortunefor which he offers to have her brother murderedVautrin does his best to corrupt the young and ambitious Rastignac, who will gradually be forced to choose between a life of luxury and a life of moral decency. In the background of their plotting, the story of Father Goriot unfolds, a tragic portrait of a man who gives everything to his family while wanting nothing more than their love and respect in return.Father Goriot is a complex yet...

Binding: Hardcover;236 pages; Publisher: Mint Editions; Classification: FA; Weight: 486 g; Dimensions: 133 x 211 x 22

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