| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 01 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Leeaf classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Bill Homewood. |
| Summary |
Impoverished young aristocrat Eugène de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society. While staying at the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris's rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, he encounters Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who has spent his entire fortune supporting his two daughters. The boarders strike up a friendship and Goriot learns of Rastignac's feelings for his daughter Delphine. He begins to see Rastignac as the ideal son-in-law, and the perfect substitute for Delphine's domineering husband. But Rastignac has other opportunities too, as the notorious criminal Vautrin, 'The Death Dodger', offers to murder the brother of a wealthy woman, giving the ambitious young lawyer a clear path to her fortune… Profound and realistic, Father Goriot is a startling glimpse into the vanity and selfishness of 19th-century Paris. It is considered one of the finest works of Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Boardinghouses -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Older men -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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French fiction -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Marriage, Ellen. Translator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Also known in English is: Old Goriot. |
| ISBN |
9781781981696 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781981698 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12199554 |
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