Eugenie Grandet

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.

ISBN 014044050X   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780140440508 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 194 Imprint Penguin Classics   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Classics S. Publication date 28 Feb 1974   Height (mm) 198 Translator M.A. Crawford   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress PQ2166 \.A37 2004   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 843.7   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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