Balzac: Old Goriot
David Bellos
128 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0521327997
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Language: English
Publish: December 25, 1987
This up-to-date account of the novel’s composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.