Le Père Goriot - Father Goriot - Vol 2 (of 2)
by Honoré de Balzac

Le Père Goriot is set in Paris in 1819. Three principal characters are the elderly Goriot who dotes on her two daughters. The latter, although they married extremely wee, yet still demand more and more of him. The other two principal characters are a criminal called Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. Le Père Goriot is considered by many to be Balzac's most important novel. It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction (which came back to frequent use recently).

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