Pere Goriot

A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entrée" into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."

　INTRODUCTION
1. PRIVATE LODGINGS
2. AFTERNOON CALLS
3. ENTRY INTO SOCIETY
4. TROMPE-LA-MORT
5. THE TWO DAUGHTERS
6. DEATH OF A FATHER
　AFTERWORD
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