by Honoré de Balzac · Circulo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422606871
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«Papá Goriot» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (292 pages, in Spanish).
Set in nineteenth-century Paris, the novel follows the elderly Goriot, ruined by excessive love for his daughters, and the young Rastignac, who arrives from the provinces to make his way. In the boarding house where both meet, Balzac portrays a society dominated by money, ambition, and the pursuit of status.
This Spanish-language edition was published in 1975 and belongs to Balzac's «La Comédie Humaine» cycle (position 23).
Suitable for readers of classics and nineteenth-century realist novels, and for those wishing to begin exploring Balzac's work.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
