Pere Goriot - Brossura

Balzac, Honoré De

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0451529596 ISBN 13: 9780451529596

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2004

Riassunto

A father's love for his daughters degrades into obsession, in an evocative novel of nineteenth-century French society that offers a commentary on wealth, human desire, ambition, and despair. Reprint.

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“The greatest novelist who ever lived.”—W. Somerset Maugham
 
“A man of genius.”—Victor Hugo

L'autore

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) worked for three years in a lawyer’s office, preparing to practice law, but in 1819, he devoted himself to writing. His early stories were hackwork published under various pseudonyms. In 1829, he published La Dernier Chouan, the first story to bear his name and his first success. Over the next twenty years, Balzac’s literary output was prodigious: three or four novels a year, sometimes more. All became part of La Comédie Humaine, a panorama of the whole of French society, some of the most important works of this series being Eugénie Grandet (1833) and Père Goriot (1834). He also wrote plays and the popular Droll Stories (1833).
 
Henry Reed (1914-86) was a noted poet, translator, and writer of radio plays. In addition to Père Goriot, his translations include Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. His poems were published in two volumes, A Map of Verona and Lessons of the War.
 
Peter Brooks is the author of a number of books, including Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and Henry James Goes to Paris. He was a longtime professor of comparative literature and French at Yale University and University Professor at the University of Virginia.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451529596
• ISBN 13: 9780451529596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320