Eugenie Grandet |
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| Author:
| Balzac, Honoré de |
| Translator:
| Crawford, Marion Ayton |
| Introduction by:
| Crawford, Marion Ayton |
| Series title: | The Human Comedy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-044050-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1955 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugenie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. Eugenie Grandet is one of the...
More DescriptionIn a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugenie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. Eugenie Grandet is one of the earliest and finest works in Balzac's Comedie humaine cycle, his magnificent panorama of post-Revolutionary French life, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. Here Grandet embodies both the passionate pursuit of money, and the human cost of avarice.