Eugénie Grandet
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Eugénie Grandet
(Oxford world's classics)
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Note
Description based on: reissued 2009
Text in English
"A chronology of Honoré de Balzac": p. xxxii-xxxiv
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Who is going to marry Eug'enie Grandet?'
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eug'enie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Com'edie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eug'enie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eug'enie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.
Eug'enie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.
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