Goriot

Eugène de Rastignac, a poor student, was ready to do anything to rise in good Parisian society. At the Vauquer pension, where he stayed, he fell in love with Father Goriot, a wealthy retiree who went into ruin to satisfy the appetites of his two daughters. His tragic fate will reveal to the ambitious young man the cruel face of the world he is striving to enter. How far can fatherly love take a man? A masterpiece by Balzac in an abridged version.