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Title: Old Goriot by Honore De Balzac, Honore De Balzac, Marion A. Crawford ISBN: 0-14-044017-8 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1951 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: AWAESOME!
Comment: This was my first Balzac novel and it definitely got me hooked on the Comedie Humaine!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Classic
Comment: Superb. My first try at Balzac and I'll definitely be reading more. He makes you want to reach into the book and strangle those two horrible daughters.
Rating: 5
Summary: The pursuit of lucre
Comment: I thought that this was a superb novel, containing an intriguing plot, rounded characters, along with an examination of thought-provoking issues.
Despite the title, "Old Goriot" is really the story of the law student Rastignac's attempts to make it in Parisian society. Rastignac is living at a run-down boarding house, the inhabitants of which include Old Goriot. There's a mystery surrounding Goriot and his connection with a couple of young women. The key phase of the novel, however, is when Rastignac comes under the influence of the cynical Vautrin.
There are echoes of other works in the novel - Old Goriot could be seen as a Lear-like figure, Vautrin as a kind of Mephistopheles. The main theme, however, is the ruinous effect of the pursuit of money and position for their own sakes: other more decent and human values are sacrificed on the altar of personal gain. Vautrin tempts Rastignac with a means of advancing his place in society, a method totally founded upon an amoral view of the world.
At the end of the novel, it's up to the reader to decide which of the characters was right all along. Was it Vautrin?
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Title: L'Assommoir: The Dram Shop (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola, Robin Buss ISBN: 0140447539 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the Present by Gordon Wright ISBN: 0393967050 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $34.80 |
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Title: Germinal by Emile Zola, Leonard W. Tancock ISBN: 0140440453 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1954 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 by Alain Corbin, Arthur Goldhammer ISBN: 0674939018 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal, Roger Gard ISBN: 0140447644 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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