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书名：Pere Goriot 高老头
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1180L
作者：Honore De Balzac巴尔扎克
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2004
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780451529596
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.1 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：320 （以实物为准）

巴尔扎克的作品被誉为“法国社会的一面镜子”。Pere Goriot《高老头》是巴尔扎克的《人间喜剧》中负有盛名的小说之一，批判了建筑在金钱基础上的“父爱”和“亲情”。小说形象地告诉人们：资产阶级的每一分钱都充塞着“和鲜血”，人和人之间。除了“裸的金钱关系”、冷酷的“现金交易”再也没有任何联系了。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Henry Reed翻译并写后记，Peter Brooks作序，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

“The greatest novelist who ever lived.” — W. Somerset Maugham
 “A man of genius.” — Victor Hugo 
“Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac’s novels,” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.” In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the “bourgeois tragedy” of money and power from two different directions. While Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty to support his ambitious daughters, an impoverished young man of integrity becomes money hungry. Attracted to one of Goriot’s daughters, Rastignac succumbs to the fever of social climbing. The resulting tale is a commentary on wealth and human desire that still rings true in the twenty-first century.
Translated and with an Afterword by Henry Reed andan Introduction by Peter Brooks

巴尔扎克杰出的作品。主要描写了住在伏盖公寓的房客之间所发生的事。高老头（高里奥老头）有两个成为贵妇人的女儿，但她们挥霍无度，当手头没钱和了别人债时她们就去亲热自己的父亲，为的是从她们年老的父亲身上榨取更多的钱财，而后，一贫如洗的高老头换来的是被女儿们抛弃冷落的结局，到临死前他才明白金钱可以买到一切，却买不到亲情。
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's “real entrée” into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict “the whole pell-mell of civilization.” 

巴尔扎克（1799~1850），19世纪法国伟大的批判现实主义作家，欧洲批判现实主义文学的奠基人和杰出代表。1799年5月20日生于法国中部的图尔城，二十岁开始从事文学创作。1831年发表的长篇小说《驴皮记》为他赢得声誉，成为法国很负盛名的作家之一。其代表作有《欧也妮·葛朗台》《高老头》等，创作了卷帙浩繁的巨作《人间喜剧》，共包含91部小说，刻画了两千四百多个人物，充分展示了19世纪上半叶法国的社会生活，是人类文学史上罕见的丰碑，被称为法国社会的“百科全书”。

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) worked for three years in a lawyer’s office, preparing to practice law, but in 1819, he devoted himself to writing. His early stories were hackwork published under various pseudonyms. In 1829, he published La Dernier Chouan, the first story to bear his name and his first success. Over the next twenty years, Balzac’s literary output was prodigious: three or four novels a year, sometimes more. All became part of La Comédie Humaine, a panorama of the whole of French society, some of the most important works of this series being Eugénie Grandet (1833) and Père Goriot (1834). He also wrote plays and the popular Droll Stories (1833).
 
Henry Reed (1914-86) was a noted poet, translator, and writer of radio plays. In addition to Père Goriot, his translations include Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. His poems were published in two volumes, A Map of Verona and Lessons of the War.
 
Peter Brooks is the author of a number of books, including Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and Henry James Goes to Paris. He was a longtime professor of comparative literature and French at Yale University and University Professor at the University of Virginia.

    THE CHIMES
    INTRODUCTION
1.  Private Lodgings
2.  Afternoon Calls
3.  Entry into Society
4.  Trompe-la-Mort
5.  The Two Daughters 
6.  Death of a Father 
    AFTERWORD