OLD MAN GORIOT: [W. Somerset MAUGHAM]
by BALZAC, Honore de
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- first
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Synopsis
A witty and reflective look at a society driven by social ambition and lust for riches-in a brilliant new translation. Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring Eugene the status and acceptance he craves? Nothing is as it seems in Paris, however, and soon he is over his head in a world of greed and obsession.
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- Bookseller
- Antic Hay Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58071
- Title
- OLD MAN GORIOT: [W. Somerset MAUGHAM]
- Author
- BALZAC, Honore de
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Selected by W. Somerset Maugham.
- Format/Binding
- 8vo., black & red cloth in dust jacket; 232 pages
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. One of the publisher's ten greatest novels of the
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company;
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1949
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