Father Goriot

By De Balzac, Honore

Book Id: WPLBN0000628455
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Father Goriot
Author:	De Balzac, Honore
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Balzac, H. D. (n.d.). Father Goriot. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging?house in the Rue Nueve?Sainte?Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint?Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme. Vauquer?s boarders.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Father Goriot, 1