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Pere Goriot

(1835)
(Old Goriot)
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Set against the background of a society driven by greed and ambition, this is the tragic story of a father financially and personally ruined by his obsessive love for his two daughters. Balzac presents a portrait of both affluence and squalor in post-Napoleonic Paris.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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