Father Goriot

Description

Part of the Scènes de la vie privée section of Honore de Balzac's series La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.

This book has 261 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1835; this is a translation by Ellen Marriage.

Production notes: This ebook of Father Goriot was published by Global Grey in 2018.