In the canon
Old Goriot
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1835
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
The Maison Vauquer smells of poverty as no other house in fiction does: greasy furniture, chipped plates, a dining room where the lodgers are ranked by the state of their coats. Early one morning a law student catches the old man from the cheapest room upstairs twisting a silver-gilt cup, a wedding present, into a lump with his bare hands, to be sold before the day begins.
Henceforth there is war between us.
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