Saturday, September 2, 2017

A criminal exposed


Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot, trans. E.K. Brown, Dorothea Walter, and John Watkins (New York: The Modern Library, 1950).

comments: 4

The Crow said...

Reads eerily current, like yesterday's headlines in the political section of the national news. (Well, it did for me, anyway!)

Pete said...

Does Vautrin have orange skin?

Michael Leddy said...

That’s what I was thinking. It’s unmistakably for our time.

Michael Leddy said...

Oops — I didn’t see your comment, Pete. No, but he does have red hair, under a wig.