Old Goriot

Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feelings in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. Old Goriot is the first book I have read by Balzac and it took me completely by......more

By page 130 I ran out of patience with this thing so I channeled my inner irritable 14 year old and composed the following review: This Ballsack is a great writer I am told but one problem is that he wrote 4,578 novels, so which one should I read. I saw that Old Goriot has mostly 4 and 5 star reviews......more

O poveste extraordinară, un Rege Lear burghez. Din păcate: Nu m-am împăcat niciodată cu grandilocvența lui Balzac. Și nici cu aceea a lui Victor Hugo. Știu, era stilul epocii (bombastic cît încape) și consecința claselor de retorică din învățămîntul francez. Pe patul de moarte, sărmanul Goriot, fostu......more

A classic French novel written in 1834 but set in Paris in 1819. Pere in the title means Father, and it’s in part a story of an old man’s obsessive love for his two married daughters. He was once a wealthy flour merchant but he gave all his money to his daughters while he lives in penury in a squali......more

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