Pere Goriot
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008573
- Title
- Pere Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Illustrator
- Eugene Abot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- The 100 Greatest Books of All Time, Literature, Fine Binding,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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