Father Goriot (Unabridged) Bill Homewood

Impoverished young aristocrat Eugène de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society. While staying at the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris’s rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, he encounters Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who has spent his entire fortune supporting his two daughters. Profound and realistic, Father Goriot is a startling glimpse into the vanity and selfishness of 19th-century Paris.