Pere Goriot Classic Reprint

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN 13 : 9781331297420
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Honoré De Balzac in Twenty Five Volumes; The First Complete Translation Into English, Vol. 15 of 25 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honore De Balzac in Twenty Five Volumes; The First Complete Translation Into English, Vol. 15 of 25: Cousin Pons; Old Goriot One of the last and largest of Balzac's great works - the very last of them, if we except "La Cousine Bette," to which it is pendant and contrast - "Le Cousin Pons" has always united suffrages from very different classes of admirers. In the first place, it is not "disagreeable," as the common euphemism has it, and as "La Cousine Bette" certainly is. In the second, it cannot be accused of being a berquinade, as those who like Balzac best when he is doing moral ragpicking are apt to describe books like "Le Medecin de Campagne" and "Le Lys dans la Vallee," if not even like "Eugenie Grandet." It has a consideral le variety of interest; its central figure is curiously pathetic and attractive, even though the curse of something like folly, which so often attends Balzac's good characters, may a little weigh on him. It would be a book of exceptional charm even if it were anonymous, or if we knew no more about the author than we know about Shakespeare. As it happens, however, "Le Cousin Pons" has other attractions than this. In the first place, Balzac is always great - perhaps he is at his greatest - in depicting a mania, a passion, whether the subject be pleasure or gold-hunger or parental affection. Pons has two manias, and the one does not interfere with, but rather helps, the other. But this would be nothing if it were not that his chief mania, his ruling passion, is one of Balzac's own. For, as we have often had occasion to notice, Balzac is not by any means one of the great impersonal artists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."