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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honor de Balzac's Eug nie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with... Read Full Overview

'Who is going to marry Eug nie Grandet?'

'Who is going to marry Eug nie Grandet?'

"Eugenie Grandet" par Honore de Balzac. Honore de Balzac etait un romancier, critique litteraire, essayiste, journaliste et ecrivain francais (1799-1850)"

This is a painfully drawn portrayal of private life, but its wider subject-matter also makes it a fictional document of post-revolutionary France. Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical... Read Full Overview

Eugenia Grandet es una novela de Honor de Balzac publicada por primera vez en el semanario L'Europe litt raire (Europa literaria) en septiembre de 1833, primer a o de la revista. La novela presenta la mentalidad de la poca de la restauraci n.

One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Com?die humaine , Eug?nie Grandet portrays the fall of the Grandet household. In its record of financial acuity, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the social and economic consequences of the Revolution, we find a vigorous... Read Full Overview

Eug nie Grandet (1833) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. Written as Balzac began to formulate the grand scale of his La Com die humaine sequence, Eug nie Grandet was eventually tied into the universe of his epic realist masterpiece, a holistic... Read Full Overview

Eug nie Grandet, un roman classique d'Honor de Balzac, plonge au coeur de la vie provinciale fran aise du XIXe si cle, explorant les th mes de la richesse, de l'avidit et des dynamiques de pouvoir au sein d'une famille. Situ e dans la petite ville de Saumur, l'histoire... Read Full Overview