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Translation of the 1847 French novel about Lisbeth Fischer, a conniving poor relation whose relationship with her beautiful cousin's sexually indiscriminate husband offers her the opportunity to exact vengeance upon the family.

Presents an English translation of a French novel by early nineteenth-century author Honore Balzac in which Pere Goirot, a man who has risen from laborer to prosperous merchant, is rejected by his daughters and his community when his fortune wanes.

Colonel Chabert, a decorated hero in the Napoleonic War, returns home after a long convalescence from a disfiguring wound to find he has been declared dead, his wife remarried and his pension gone, and hires a popular young lawyer in an attempt to regain his life and wealth.

Presents an English translation of Balzac's 1835 novel in which Goriot, a loving parent, is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters, and includes a selection of twentieth-century criticism.

Through parental love Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty so that he may satisfy the demands of his well-married but debt-ridden daughters.