Old Man Goriot

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Old Man Goriot

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ISBN: 9780140449723
author: Honore de Balzac
translator: Olivia McCannon
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 2011 -3
series: Penguin Classics
binding: Paperback
price: 119.00元
number of pages: 336

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Honore de Balzac    translator: Olivia McCannon

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Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In the city nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of his depth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never have imagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.

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