Description: Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet" begins 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. 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, 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. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of 30, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, La Comedie humaine, is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Book Title: Eugenie Grandet & Other Stories
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Original Language: French
Item Length: 5.25 in
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Vintage: Yes
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Publication Year: 1915
Type: Novel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Literary Movement: Naturalism
Illustrator: Naturalism
Item Height: 7.5 in
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 17 oz
Item Width: 1.25 in
Number of Pages: 288
