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Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot. v1 31 Jan 2018
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) helped to establish the current form of the novel, and was one of the greatest and most prolific novelists and short story writers of all time. Nearly a hundred of his novels and short stories formed La Comédie humaine, in which some characters occur in several stories.
Ellen Marriage (1865-1946) was an English translator, particularly of Balzac's works, who (according to Wikipedia) put an effort into readability and accuracy that was unusual in translators of her period. George Saintsbury (1845-1933) was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur who edited an English edition of La Comédie humaine translated by Ellen Marriage and published in 1895-98 by J. M. Dent. Father Goriot, (also known as Pere Goriot and Old Goriot,) was published in serial form in 1834, and as a book in 1835. It is set in Paris in 1819, during the Bourbon restoration, and tells of the complex interactions between Eugène de Rastignac, (a penniless but ambitious young provincial aristocrat) Father Goriot, (a old bourgeois man who gave all his fortune to see his two young daughters married into the aristocracy), and several other characters in both classes. The serial version was divided into seven chapters. The original book version and this ebook version have no chapters, though it has some one line separations. The text was taken from Wikisource, and checked against the 1898 edition by The Gebbie Publishing Co. in the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced diacritics, set letters off as blockquotes, and made changes to punctuation and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com. This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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Thanks! I did a little research on "Father Goriot", and decided it was something I want to read!
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