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Le Pre GoriotLe Pre Goriot (English title: Old Goriot) is a 1835 novel written by Honor de Balzac. It is one of the series of novels to which Balzac gave the title of "The Comedy of Human Life." It is a comedy, mingled with lurid tragic touches, of society in the French capital in the early decades of the 19th century. The title character in this story is Old Goriot, and the passion which dominates him is that of paternity. In the picture which Balzac draws of Parisian life, from the sordid boarding-house to the luxurious mansions of the gilded aristocracy in the days of the Bourbon Restoration, the author exhibits that tendency to over-description for which he was criticised by his contemporaries. External link - — English translation by Ellen Marriage
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