Old Goriot
by De Balzac, Honore
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- The Vintage Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009303
- Title
- Old Goriot
- Author
- De Balzac, Honore
- Illustrator
- Rene Ben Sussan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- NOISBN, VINTAGE, HUMOR, FRANCE, FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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