Balzac's Father Goriot - Complete

In a rundown boarding house on Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, the Maison Vauquer, rubbed shoulders local regulars.

Among them, Eugène de Rastignac, son of an impoverished noble family who had come to Paris to study law. He dreams of making his way into high society.

In his quest for the upper echelons, he will discover Father Goriot's secret and then gauge the extent of human misery and vanity.