PERE GORIOT & EUGENIE GRANDET

This is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970.It is two novels.

Pere Goriot (or Old Goriot)is an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence 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. It is considered Balzac's most important novel and it has often been adapted for film and the stage. It also is the base of the French expression 'Rastignac', which is a term for a social climber willing to do anything to get ahead.

Eugenie Grandet is an 1833 novel which Balzac continued into his Human Comedy series. It is the story of a young woman whose wealthy but tight-fisted father tries to arrange a financially advantageous marriage for her when she falls in love with her penniless cousin.

This is a lovely book. It is light brown leatherette.

It has a gilt design on the cover and spine and a bound-in silk bookmark. 516 pages.

The original owner put a bookplate on the inside front cover and then crossed out his/her name. You can either put a label over that or steam off the bookplate.

Other than that, it's in absolutely pristine condition. There are no marks in or on it; I don't believe that it's been read.