Old Goriot
by Balzac ,Honore de
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- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0460011707
- ISBN 13
- 9780460011709
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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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- shedlightbooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- sl 4178
- Title
- Old Goriot
- Author
- Balzac ,Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0460011707
- ISBN 13
- 9780460011709
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
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