{"product_id":"2940013346147","title":"FATHER GORIOT","description":"FATHER GORIOT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMme. Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past\u003cbr\u003eforty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve,\u003cbr\u003ein the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison\u003cbr\u003eVauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever\u003cbr\u003ebeen breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same\u003cbr\u003etime, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been\u003cbr\u003eunder her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for\u003cbr\u003eany length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the\u003cbr\u003eslenderest. In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was\u003cbr\u003ean almost penniless young girl among Mme. Vauquer's boarders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been\u003cbr\u003eoverworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous\u003cbr\u003eliterature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is\u003cbr\u003edramatic in the restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may\u003cbr\u003eperhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079372849392,"sku":"2940013346147","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013346147_p0.jpg?v=1763579946","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013346147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}