Old Goriot

Old GoriotBy: Honor De Balzac Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series Honor de Balzacs great theme was money, and in his best loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social climbing daughters,

when Narwhal lends Jelly his “favourite book in the whole wide water

Very soon they discover that dark forces are at work

Oliver and Amanda learn just how much fun it is to have a grandmother in the house

Is the house haunted

but The Emotional Lives of Teenagers is the nuanced

Travel back in time to lock horns with a triceratops

Following the discovery of his crime

Duck is wide awake

don't have the money they need for the class's end-of-the-year gift for their teacher

imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights

and everything she thought she knew

It wasn't easy caring for two brothers and two sisters