Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris,
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- and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place
to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to
make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who
mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot.
Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In the
city nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of his
depth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never have
imagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.
關於作者:
The son of a civil servant, Honore de Balzac was born in 1799
in Tours, France. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age
of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short
stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled
his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and
Dumas pere and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French
romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to
the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen
years.