About This Novel
The novel is set in the French society during the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty. It tells the story of the two daughters raised by Goriot, who made a fortune in business, with all his efforts. After marriage, under the influence of the upper-class lifestyle, they squeezed their father's property, damaged their dignity, and tortured their father's emotions until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".
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Official(4)Scraped 3d ago
Why is it only 4 points? Giving it 5 points is no exaggeration.
100
Reread the classics and pay tribute to the classics.
Balzac is a world-famous writer, collect it and take a look again!
I hope that at the end of the years, there will always be someone waiting for you to stay with you forever.
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Official(4)Scraped 3d ago
Why is it only 4 points? Giving it 5 points is no exaggeration.
100
Reread the classics and pay tribute to the classics.
Balzac is a world-famous writer, collect it and take a look again!
I hope that at the end of the years, there will always be someone waiting for you to stay with you forever.
