Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Pere Goriot

La Comédie Humaine #23

Honoré de Balzac with Ellen Marriage (Translator), Walter Covell (Narrator)

11 hours first pub 1835 (editions) user-added

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature. In 1833 he conceived the idea of linking together his novels so that they would comprehend the whole society in a series of books. This plan e...

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