Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

Set during the Bourbon Restoration, Balzac's FATHER GORIOT examines the lives of Parisians struggling with profound changes in French society and the attempts by many to reach the upper echelons of a class-conscious society. Balzac also analyzes, through Goriot and others, the nature of family and marriage, providing a pessimistic view of these institutions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013997387
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	02/23/2012
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	819 KB

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. A troubled man, Balzac struggled financially and emotionally much of his life. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and plays collectively entitled THE HUMAN COMEDY, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815.