Old Goriot, Honor de Balzac
Old Goriot, Honor de Balzac
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Old Goriot

Author: Honor de Balzac

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Balzacs universally loved novel explores the great theme of money and its effect on the human character. Old Goriot is a lodger at Madame Vauquers Parisian boarding house. At first, his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are reduced, he is gradually shunned. He moves into smaller and less desirable rooms in the house, and soon his only remaining visitors are two beautiful young women. The mystery as to who they are and what is happening to Goriots fortune involves several other boarders, including Rastignac, an ambitious youth who hopes to rise in society.With its complicities and alliances, mysteries and betrayals, passions and ambitions, the house becomes a microcosm of the grasping Parisian society of the 1820sa perfect setting for Balzacs masterful portrayal of La Comdie humaine, the whole comedic parade of human life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on February 14, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Paul on July 14, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Valeriu on November 25, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Jim on March 16, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Manny on May 12, 2021

SCHMIDT: Last thing, if Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia — is that a red line? HABERMAN: Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is? TRUMP: I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I don’t — I don’t — I mean, it’s possible t......more