Gobseck by Honoré de Balzac

52 pages

54 editions

fiction classics literary short stories reflective slow-paced
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Gobseck began as a cabin boy and worked his way up while traveling around the world. He became rich and a miser. His philosophy of never helping anyone because "adversity is the greatest of all teachers" was well known. He also believed that all t...

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