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Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · 1835
Original text in French. In English: Old Man Goriot.
In a Parisian boarding house, an ambitious student discovers what an old man has sacrificed for his daughters.
Novel · 4 parts · about 93 000 words · about 6 h 45 of reading
Contents
Le Père Goriot (1834)
- I. Une pension bourgeoise2 h 07
- II. L’entrée dans le monde1 h 46
- III. Trompe-la-mort1 h 24
- IV. La mort du père1 h 29
About this text
Honoré de Balzac († 1850): public-domain work. The text is that of Wikisource (Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1910). Its transcription, by Wikisource volunteers (contribution history), is published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; so are this reading page and the EPUB file. Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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