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Name: Gobseck

Author: Honore de Balzac
Year: 1830
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Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9781406948806
9781480191471
1406948802
1480191477

Gobseck began as a cabin boy and worked his way up while traveling around the world. He became rich and a miser. His philosophy of never helping anyone because "adversity is the greatest of all teachers" was well known. He also believed that all the peoples of the world were really very much alike because money was the greatest common denominator.

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