Père Goriot
Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850)
Père Goriot / Honoré de Balzac ; a new translation with an introduction and notes by A.J. Krailsheimer - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2009, c1991 - xxiv, 274 p. : Map ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .
"An edition limited to 80 copies"--T. p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters.
9780199538751
2009464694
014793722 Uk
Older men----Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Boarding houses----France----Paris----Fiction
Paris (France)----Fiction
France----History----Louis XVIII----1814-1824----Fiction
PQ2168 / .A35 2009
FIC BAL
Père Goriot / Honoré de Balzac ; a new translation with an introduction and notes by A.J. Krailsheimer - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2009, c1991 - xxiv, 274 p. : Map ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .
"An edition limited to 80 copies"--T. p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters.
9780199538751
2009464694
014793722 Uk
Older men----Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Boarding houses----France----Paris----Fiction
Paris (France)----Fiction
France----History----Louis XVIII----1814-1824----Fiction
PQ2168 / .A35 2009
FIC BAL