Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. A favorite of Balzac’s, the book quickly won widespread popularity and has often been...