Old Goriot
Publisher: Penguin
Published: January 26, 2006
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780141023397
First sentence: For the last forty years the elderly Madame Vauquer, nee de Conflans, has kept a family boarding-house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel.