“Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac?s novels,? writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac?s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.? In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the “bourgeois tragedy? of money and power from two different directions. While Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty to support his ambitious daughters, an impoverished young man of integrity becomes money hungry. Attracted to one of Goriot?s daughters, Rastignac succumbs to the fever of social climbing. The resulting tale is a commentary on wealth and human desire that still rings true in the twenty-first century.

Translated and with an Afterword by Henry Reed
and with an Introduction by Peter Brooks

320 pages

Médium	Knihy Paperback Book (Kniha s mäkkou väzbou a lepeným chrbtom)
Vydané	07. decembra 2004
ISBN13	9780451529596
Vydavatelia	Penguin Putnam Inc
Strany	320
Rozmery	105 × 172 × 170 mm · 158 g
Jazyk	Angličtina
Prispievateľ	Henry Reed
Prispievateľ	Peter Brooks