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Old Goriot Author: By 1819, when Balzac's novel opens, old Goriot is reduced to living in a mean forty-five franc room on the third floor, his fine cambric shirts and diamond pin long sold. Moon-faced, unhappy and unkempt, his only visitors are two glamorous Parisian women, 'too pretty to be good', who call infrequently and surreptitiously, leaving their carriages... more »
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