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Author: (French) Balzac
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: OLD GORIOT is a masterpiece of the 19th-century French critical 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 Restaud. Through the tragedy of retired noodle merchant Goriot being financially drained by his two beloved daughters who have entered high society, and ultimately dying in poverty on the attic of the Vauquer apartment, and through the observations and experiences of the ambitious young nobleman Rastignac, who travels from the countryside to Paris to join his aunt, Madame de Restaud, and climbs the social ladder, the novel realistically portrays a microcosm of French society during the Restoration period,ing the era's ethos where money ruled everything.