Old Goriot

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eug├¿ne becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beaus├®ant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.