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Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

EN·~9 hours·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total

Translated by Ellen Marriage

0:12

FATHER GORIOT

9:46:40

ADDENDUM - The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

4:34

Description

Translation of Pere Goriot

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Dagny, and David Widger

Release date

2004-10-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1237

Subjects

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction Paris (France) -- Fiction French fiction -- Translations into English Older men -- Fiction France -- History -- Louis XVIII, 1814-1824 -- Fiction PQ

About the author

Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850

Best known for building La Comédie humaine, he turned novels into a sweeping portrait of French society—full of ambition, money, love, and social climbing. His stories are rich in detail, vivid characters, and the sharp observations that helped shape modern realism.

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