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Eugenie Grandet

Author: Marion Crawford and Honoré de Balzac   Series: Penguin Classics

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One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession.

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives 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.

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One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession.

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives 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.

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One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession.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 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.

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About the Author

Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850.M. A. Crawford has translated many of Balzac's novels for the Penguin Classics

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
2nd December 2004
Edition
1st
Pages
256
ISBN
9780140440508

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