Book of Donmon Teith

Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this translation includes a full editorial apparatus.

This is a magnum-opus and one of the most widely read novels written by Balzac. It is a story of a young and eager man, Rastignac, who is determined to succeed

Considered to be one of Balzac's most important works, "Old Goriot", or "Père Goriot", is the story of its title character Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hid

A realistic novel of French society from the Latin Quarter to the aristocracy as depicted through the story of a father who sacrifices all for his daughters