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Balzac's universally loved novel explores the great theme of money and its influence on the human character. Old Goriot is a lodger at Madame Vauquer's Parisian boarding house. At first, his riches inspires esteem, but as his circumstances are reduced, he is little by little shunned. He goes into smaller and less attractive rooms in the house, and soon his only remaining tourists are two beautiful young women. The mystery concerning who they are and what's happening to Goriot's lot of money involves other boarders, including Rastignac, an ambitious junior who hopes to go up in society. Using its complicities and alliances, mysteries and betrayals, passions and ambitions, the home becomes a microcosm of the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s - a perfect setting up for Balzac's masterful portrayal of La Comépass away humaine, the complete comedic parade of human life. HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850), was created in Travels, France, educated at the Collège de Vendôme, and examined law at the Sorbonne. His father wished him to become attorney at law, but he remaining Travels in 1819 to seek his lot of money as an publisher in Paris. He wrote eighty-five novels in twenty years, but his life was one of recurrent privation. In 1850, he wedded Madame Hanska, a abundant Polish sweetheart with whom he had corresponded for more than fifteen years but got only just satisfied personally. Five months later, Balzac passed away in Paris.
