P?re Goriot / Balzac, Honor? de

Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.

Through parental love Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters.