Eugenie Grandet

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

In Eugenie Grandet we are told the story of a young girl whose life is complicated by her father's incessant greed. Here we see the sins of the father visited upon the daughter as she attempts to rebel against his attitudes. Fully realized characters abound in this truly moving book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515436539
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Note on the Text	xxx
	Select Bibliography	xxxi
	A Chronology of Honore de Balzac	xxxii
	Portraits of Bourgeois	3
	The Cousin from Paris	35
	Provincial Love	54
	A Miser's Promises and Lovers' Vows	90
	Family Sorrows	134
	The Way of the World	169
	Explanatory Notes	193

Editorial Reviews

Balzac's 1834 King Lear-esque novel here gets a little fresh air breathed into it by Burton Raffel, who won the 1991 French-American Translation Prize.

Library Journal

"This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end."  —Rose Tremain

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