Pere Goriot
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ISBN13: 9781096728191
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"Pere Goriot" perhaps deserves to be ranked as that one of Balzac's novels which has united the greatest number of suffrages, and which exhibits his peculiar merits, not indeed without any of his faults, but with the merits in eminent, and the faults not in glaring, degree. It was written (the preface is dated 1834) at the time when his genius was at its very height, when it had completely burst the strange shell which had so long enveloped and cramped it, when the scheme of the "Comédie Humaine" was not quite finally settled (it never was that), but elaborated to a very considerable extent, when the author had already acquired most of the knowledge of the actual world which he possessed, and when his physical powers were as yet unimpaired by his enormous labor and his reckless disregard of "burning the candle at both ends." Although it exhibits, like nearly all his work, the complication of interest and scheme which was almost a necessity to him, that complication is kept within reasonable bounds, and managed with wonderful address. The history of Goriot and his daughters, the fortunes of Eugène de Rastignac, and the mysterious personality and operations of Vautrin, not only all receive due and unperplexed development, but work upon each other with that correspondence and interdependence which form the rarest gift of the novelist, and which, when present, too commonly have attached to them the curse of over-minuteness and complexity. No piece of Balzac's Dutch painting is worked out with such marvelous minuteness as the Maison Vauquer, and hardly any book of his has more lifelike studies of character. - G.S. ( Taken from "Pere Goriot" written by Honoré de Balzac)
| ISBN-13 | 9781096728191 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1096728192 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.55 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $11.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 220 pages |
| Publisher | Independently published |
| Published On | 2019-05-03 |
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