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This collection of narrative prose features diverse stories and characters, and its title intriguingly suggests mystery and hiddenness.
Uncle Goriot is the story of the old war profiteer Goriot and his daughters, who, after robbing him to the skin, leave him to die in the solitude and misery of the Vaquer boarding house, a story that can be read today on several levels.
When Thea finds herself on a hijacked plane somewhere over the Libyan desert, her priority is to take care of two boys rescued from the war in Africa, who are now traveling with her to a new family in London.
Although Yvette is a novella of fashionable life, written in an elegant manner, it cannot be considered merely a likable drawing room. Yvette is much more complex.