{"product_id":"2026100012104-secondhand-pere-goriot","title":"Pere Goriot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fog-drenched boarding houses of post-revolutionary Paris, an old man named Goriot sacrifices everything — his fortune, his dignity, his very life — for two ungrateful daughters who have long since abandoned him for the glittering salons of high society. Honoré de Balzac's Pere Goriot chronicles the parallel rise of the ambitious young student Eugène de Rastignac, whose moral education in the corrupt machinery of Parisian ambition forces him to confront an agonising question: can a man of conscience survive — let alone succeed — in a world that rewards only ruthlessness?\n\nA cornerstone of Balzac's monumental La Comédie Humaine cycle, Pere Goriot stands as one of the nineteenth century's most devastating portrayals of class, greed, and parental love. Balzac writes with the precision of a surgeon and the passion of a moralist, dissecting French society with an unflinching realism that anticipates the naturalist movement to come. Themes of sacrifice, social climbing, and the corrosive power of money resonate as sharply today as they did in 1835 — leaving the reader to wonder whether Rastignac's final, defiant challenge to Paris from atop Père Lachaise cemetery is a declaration of war, or a surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070623711451,"sku":"2026100012104-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b28c5ffc-67fd-4918-a52a-698b0c7433a2.png?v=1794188163","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012104-secondhand-pere-goriot","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}