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    Gobseck
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    Gobseck

    Written by Honoré de Balzac

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    Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accostomed them to. This is a continutation of tale of one of those daughters, Mme Restaud. (Summary by JCarson)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Honoré de Balzac

    Honoré de Balzac (geb. 20. Mai 1799 in Tours; gest. 18. August 1850 in Paris) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. In den Literaturgeschichten wird er, obwohl er eigentlich zur Generation der Romantiker zählt, mit dem 17 Jahre älteren Stendhal und dem 22 Jahre jüngeren Flaubert als Dreigestirn der großen Realisten gesehen. Sein Hauptwerk ist der rund 88 Titel umfassende, aber unvollendete Romanzyklus La Comédie humaine (dt.: Die menschliche Komödie), dessen Romane und Erzählungen ein Gesamtbild der Gesellschaft im Frankreich seiner Zeit zu zeichnen versuchen.

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