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    Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Father Goriot with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, which tells the story of Eugène de Rastignac, an ambitious yet honest young man who becomes disillusioned by his surrounding Parisian society. In this realistic tale of initiation and fatherly love, Balzac gives an uncompromising description of the society he lived in, and introduces the characters of The Human Comedy. Honoré de Balzac was one of France’s most prolific and influential writers, and his work played a major part in laying the groundwork for the modern realist novel.

    Find out all you need to know about Father Goriot in a fraction of the time!

    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
       • A complete plot summary
       • Character studies
       • Key themes and symbols
       • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9782806270412
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      Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      French writer

      Born in Tours in 1799

      Died in Paris in 1850

      Notable works:

      The Chouans (1829), novel

      Eugénie Grandet (1833), novel

      Father Goriot (1835)

      Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is one of the main French authors of the 19th century. As a young man, he managed to enter the aristocratic Parisian milieu, which he would henceforth never cease to frequent. However, disastrous ventures and an excessive lifestyle quickly ruined him: literary writing, which he practiced assiduously and with passion, would soon become his only way to reimburse his debts.

      An ambitious man, he started a monumental work, The Human Comedy, which consists of more than ninety novels, which aimed to

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