Chapter 33 of Father Goriot is here in full — 159 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XXXIII
Chapter 33 of Father Goriot is here in full — 159 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself. There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.” “I shall not see them. Oh! the agony of it!” “You _shall_ see them.”
Chapter 33 of Father Goriot is here in full — 159 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/31 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.
From this reading “Oh! the agony of it!””
make calm or still
From this reading ““Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.”
dearly loved
From this reading ““Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.”
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
From this reading “There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.””
with low volume
From this reading “There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.””
not move; be in a resting position
From this reading “There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.””
be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
From this reading “There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.””
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading ““Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
Extreme physical or mental suffering; intense anguish.
From this reading Oh! the agony of it!”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
make calm or still
From this reading “Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.
dearly loved
From this reading “Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I shall not see them.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Oh! the agony of it!”
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “I shall not see them.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Oh! the agony of it!”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh! the agony of it!”
with low volume
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
not move; be in a resting position
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading “I shall not see them.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading “I shall not see them.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Oh! the agony of it!”
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading “I shall not see them.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
From this reading There, there, lie quietly and rest; don’t worry yourself, don’t think.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You _shall_ see them.”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading “Dear Father Goriot, calm yourself.
Chapter 33 of Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac holds 159 sentences, grouped into 32 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 33 holds 159 sentences of Father Goriot, unabridged, divided into 32 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 33 of Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 159 sentences, grouped into 32 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 32 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 32 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 33 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 464 minutes of reading across 1114 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Father Goriot, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
