Father Goriot: A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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In a shabby Paris boarding house an old vermicelli merchant sells the last of his silver to keep two daughters in the gowns their marriages require, while upstairs a law student learns the city's actual curriculum. Balzac compresses the whole Human Comedy into one street, and Rastignac's challenge from the cemetery closes it. Paintings of gas-lit streets, candlelit garrets and glittering salons; Gilded Library ornament of boarding-house key, mantel clock and tallow.
In a shabby Paris boarding house an old vermicelli merchant sells the last of his silver to keep two daughters in the gowns their marriages require, while upstairs a law student learns the city's actual curriculum. Balzac compresses the whole Human Comedy into one street, and Rastignac's challeng...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote through the night on quantities of coffee that probably killed him, chased business schemes that ruined him twice, and left ninety-one linked novels mapping French society from the garret to the faubourg. This is the book where the map first shows its joins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote through the night on quantities of coffee that probably killed him, chased business schemes that ruined him twice, and left ninety-one linked novels mapping French society from the garret to the faubourg. This is the book where the map first shows its joins.
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