Le Pere Goriot / Father Goriot

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) - world-famous French novelist.
"Father Goriot" (1834) is the first novel in the series "The Human Comedy". The main character of Balzac is Goriot, an old man who was once a prosperous bread merchant, now living in the attic of one of the boarding houses in Paris. The whole world seems to have ceased to exist for him, as he has lost everything he loved...
The book presents the unadapted text in the original language.
Comments, dictionary by E.S. Vasilieva.