Balzac honoré de

1980 · 16908 — 1980. Balzac Honore De. PERE GORIOT Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1980. First Edition by Franklin Library. Hardcover. Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. A Limited Edition beautifully bound in one quarter premium full Navy leather. Accented in gilt motifs. Printed on archival paper with all gilded edges. Decorated endsheets and with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. 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. It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction. The novel is also noted as an example of his realist style using minute details to create character and subtext. Beautifully bound and in very good condition. unknown