Father Goriot: Le P�re Goriot

Father Goriot by Honore De Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage. Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. Originally published in serial form during ...