Old Goriot: Introduction by Donald Adamson (Everyman's Library

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Old Goriot: Introduction by Donald Adamson (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
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HonorÃ© de Balzacâ€™s great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country,Â EugÃ¨ne de Rastignac.Â Â

Rastignac is appalled at first by the greed and corruption he finds in Paris, but he soon sets his sights on conquering high society. He joins forces with the array of schemers who surround him, while the suffering, self-sacrificing Goriot yearns in vain for his daughtersâ€™ love. The sprawling, vibrant, and turbulent Paris of the post-Napoleonic era is itself a major character in the novel, an emblem of the social upheaval that Balzac portrays so brilliantly. Old Goriot was the first of Balzacâ€™s novels to employ his famous technique of recurring characters, and it has come to be seen as the keystone in his grand project, The Human Comedy.

Translated by Ellen MarriageÂ

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Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0679405356_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1991-11-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679405351

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0679405356_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1991-11-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679405351

Old Goriot: Introduction by Donald Adamson (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

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