An ambitious young law student boards in a shabby Paris pension where he watches an old man beggar himself for two ungrateful, socially ascendant daughters.
Books mentioned in Father Goriot (5)
Le Solitaire by Charles-Victor Prévost d'Arlincourt: “Marty in _Le Mont Sauvage_, a fine play taken from _Le Solitaire_....”
Le Mont Sauvage by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt: “Marty in _Le Mont Sauvage_, a fine play taken from _Le Solitaire_....”
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini: “I am what you call an artist. I have read Benvenuto Cellini's _Memoirs_, such as you see me; and, what is more, in Italian”
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “he lifts up his voice against the colossal fraud of the Social Contract, as Jean Jacques did, whose pupil he is proud to declare himself.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “he began to think that this was some story out of the Arabian Nights made real”