Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.
year: 2004, 1999, 1946
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fathers and daughters, fiction, older men, father-daughter relationship, elderly men, paris (france), fiction, france, history, louis xviii, 1814-1824, 1815-1914, poverty
Editions
Balzac, Honor? de
Signet Classics (2004)
Through parental love Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters.
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Balzac, Honor? de
Oxford University Press (1999)
Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.
Schools: 1
Balzac, Honor? de
Modern Library (1946)
Schools: 0
Balzac, Honor? de
Modern Library (1946)
Schools: 0