Balzac: Old Goriot

David Bellos (Author)

9780521316347, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 November 1987

116 pages, 5 tables
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm, 0.14 kg

This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.

Chronology
Note on the text
Introduction
1. The making of Old Goriot
2. The achievement of Old Goriot
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]