Alphonse Daudet

Author: (French) Balzac/H. Liu Jianying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "Coffee" Bilingual Classic Series, which will lead you to an intimate encounter with literary classics. Unconsciously, you will be immersed in the joy of reading and unable to put it down. As you savor the elegant and enduring fragrance of the classics, your chaotic thoughts will find perfect solace. After some contemplation, you will appreciate the juicy and delicious spiritual nourishment bestowed by the masters. In the face of the materialistic and increasingly noisy world today, with the radiance of the classics, you will find the most suitable way of survival for yourself. "Coffee" selectively excerpts and condenses the original text, preserving the essence of the masterpiece while maintaining its core message. It is accompanied by a classic film DVD, and the different Chinese translations of the characters in the masterpiece are uniformly annotated, allowing you to appreciate the classics and savor life in a fast-paced modern world. Let the literary classics accompany us on our long journey of life! Let us get lost in the classics, find tranquility in the classics, and gain enlightenment in the classics! Old Goriot is a masterpiece of the 19th-century French realist writer Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). The novel is set against the backdrop of late 1819 to early 1820, with the stage set in the apartment of Madame Vauquer and the salon of Madame de Beauchamps. Through the tragic story of retired noodle merchant Goriot being financially drained by his two beloved daughters who have entered high society and later dying penniless in the attic of the Vauquer apartment, and through the experiences and observations of the ambitious young nobleman Rastignac, who comes to Paris to join his aunt, Madame de Beauchamps, and climbs the social ladder, the novel realistically portrays a microcosm of French society during the Restoration period and recreates the era's ethos where money rules everything.