Father Goriot

A 19th-century French novel by Honoré de Balzac, set in a Paris boarding house in 1819, where the lives of its poor lodgers, including the elderly Father Goriot, unfold in a story of poverty, sacrifice, and social ambition.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›French and Belgian French novels›Romantic era, 1800 to 1847

Reader

Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›French and Belgian French novels›Romantic era, 1800 to 1847