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Eugenie Grandet
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515436539
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eugenie Grandet is Honoré de Balzac's classic novel of family tyranny, provincial wealth, disappointed love, and the moral cost of avarice. Set in the French town of Saumur, the novel centres on Eugénie, the sheltered daughter of the fabulously wealthy but miserly Félix Grandet, whose household is ruled by secrecy, calculation, and the relentless preservation of money. When her elegant Parisian cousin Charles arrives in disgrace and financial ruin, Eugénie's quiet world is transformed by compassion, sacrifice, and love.
One of the central works in Balzac's vast La Comédie humaine, Eugenie Grandet offers a precise and unsparing portrait of post-revolutionary French society, where family feeling, marriage, inheritance, and social rank are repeatedly bent beneath the pressure of property and ambition. Balzac turns a domestic story into a larger study of greed, emotional imprisonment, and the tragic narrowing of a generous life. For readers of French literature, nineteenth-century realism, classic European fiction, social satire, and novels of inheritance and family power, Eugenie Grandet remains one of Balzac's most accessible and enduring works. Penguin describes the novel as a work of social satire concerned with greed, obsession, private life, and post-revolutionary France.
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