Pere Goriot (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

387 pp. 8vo. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, three raised spine bands, decorative endpapers. Illustrations by Eugene Abot. "This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin."