Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Old Goriot

La Comédie Humaine #23

Honoré de Balzac with Ellen Marriage (Translator), Rene Ben Sussan (Illustrator)

317 pages first pub 1835 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Father Goriot, today considered one of Balzac’s most important works, is part of his novel sequence The Human Comedy. It’s the first of Balzac’s novels to feature recurring characters, a technique that he famously developed in his subsequent novel...

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