Old Goriot
by Honore de Balzac
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- ISBN 10
- 0140440178
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440171
- Seller
-
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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
- Irolita Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12377
- Title
- Old Goriot
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140440178
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440171
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 303
- Size
- 18 cm.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
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