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Pere Goriot
Pere Goriot
Author: Honore De Balzac, A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator)
Old Goriot has raised his two daughters to be selfish, vain, and greedy; when as adults they treat him badly, repaying his indulgence of their whims with indifference and cruelty, Goriot realizes that they are only behaving as they have been trained to. In this brilliant but bleak novel, virtually every character has been corrupted in some way b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192835697
ISBN-10: 0192835696
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: 274
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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carlamo avatar reviewed Pere Goriot on + 269 more book reviews
Another great story by Balzac


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