Screen LibraryPere Goriot
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford world's classics |
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| Item Description: | Pere Goriot. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 274 p.: ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199538751 (pbk.) 0199538751 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I565 |
| CLC: | I565.44 |
| Call Number: | I565.44/B198-6 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references. Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- Chronology of Honore de Balzac -- Pere Goriot -- 1: Family boarding house -- 2: Entry on the social scene -- 3: Death-dodger -- 4: Father's death -- Map of Paris at the restoration -- Explanatory notes. From the Publisher: A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entree" into La Comedie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization." |