Book Series

Père Goriot

Balzac Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

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See the full Père Goriot reading order for all books in the series.

About Père Goriot

Balzac's Père Goriot (1835) is the central novel of the Comédie Humaine — the work that introduces Rastignac and dramatizes Balzac's vision of Paris as a battlefield where money and social position are won by whatever means necessary. The best entry point to one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the novel.

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