Father Goriot: A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 26 full-page plates by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Honoré Daumier. In a shabby Paris boarding house, an old vermicelli merchant sells his last silver to keep two daughters in gowns they will not thank him for, and a law student decides which way he intends to climb. Balzac worked nights on fifty cups of coffee a day and died at fifty-one; this is the novel where his Human Comedy locks together, and where Vautrin explains, at length, exactly how the world is run. Twenty-six plates of painting, from Daumier to Boilly, catch the boarding-house table, the chess game and the public auction, the exact Parisian rooms and appetites Balzac turns into fate.
Complete and unabridged, with 26 full-page plates by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Honoré Daumier. In a shabby Paris boarding house, an old vermicelli merchant sells his last silver to keep two daughters in gowns they will not thank him for, and a law student decides whi...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines French society across the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines Fr...
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