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Gobseck

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2H 35min
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Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830.

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accustomed them to. This is a continuation of the tale of one of those daughters, Mme Restaud.

The plot of Gobseck, is set during the French Restoration, and concerns Anastasie de Restaud, née Goriot. Anastasie de Restaud is the daughter of a rich bourgeois who has married into the aristocracy, but is bored by her marriage, which is loveless and passionless.

Anastasie de Restaud has an affair with Maxime de Trailles, and spends her fortune on de Trailles. She turns to the usurer Jean-Esther van Gobseck for financial assistance.

© 2016 Anncona Media AB (Audiobook): 9789176056448
© 2015 Anncona Media AB (Ebook): 9789176056455

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Audiobook: 8 January 2016
Ebook: 21 December 2015

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