Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe
Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth
inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced
he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining
visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate
is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social
climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and
wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is
hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and
panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed
and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece.
A key novel in his Comedie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized
portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the
French Revolution.
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