Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

272 pages first pub 1835 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Honor de Balzac'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. The...

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