In the canon
Father Goriot
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1835
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 310
A ruined old merchant beggars himself buying his daughters into fashionable marriages, then dies alone in a shabby boarding house while they attend a ball instead of his deathbed, watched by a student who learns what Paris will cost him.
Henceforth there is war between us.
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