Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Pere Goriot

La Comédie Humaine #23

Honoré de Balzac with Henry Reed (Translator)

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

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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"Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac's novels," writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a maniacal compulsion. This novel marks Balzac's "real entrée" in...

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