OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, HONORE DE
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair/No d/w
- Seller
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Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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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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- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008258
- Title
- OLD GORIOT
- Author
- BALZAC, HONORE DE
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No d/w
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
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