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Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In the city nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of his depth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never have imagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.
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The son of a civil servant, Honore de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas pere and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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For the last forty years the elderly Madame Vauquer, nee de Conflans, has kept a family boarding-house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Read the first page
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For the last forty years the elderly Madame Vauquer, nee de Conflans, has kept a family boarding-house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Read the first page
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