This is part of his Comédie Humaine series but can be read equally well on its own. A great introduction to Balzac's work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Père_Goriot
I have formatted the text with curly quotes and apostrophes, italics, French accents etc for those who appreciate these things, as well as correcting odd typos.
It's best read in a serif font (I've set Georgia as the preferred font). If you don't have a serif font on your pda you can add one by copying a font from a Windows computer (look for a .ttf file in the Fonts folder) and copying it to the font folder in your pda.
The markup is almost valid xhtml - almost because I have used the mobipocket 'pagebreak' a couple of times. This should be ignored by other software.
Please let me know about any formatting problems or typos or accents I may have missed. And I'm curious to know whether the styles are rendered on an iPhone so if anyone tries this on an iPhone please let me know if it looks OK.
Feel free to convert to lrf or whatever.
[edit: I spotted a typo so I've uploaded again]
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