Eugenie Grandet
by Honore de Balzac
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 014044050X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440508
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"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.
Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.
Synopsis
Eugénie Grandet (1833) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his grand project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eugénie Grandet and incorporated it into the Comedie by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition.
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- Title
- Eugenie Grandet
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 11th paperback printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014044050X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440508
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Literature;
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