Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac

"Eugenie Grandet" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1834. Set in provincial France after the Revolution, it tells the story of a young woman trapped under the tyranny of her miserly father, Felix Grandet, whose obsession with wealth controls every aspect of their household. When her charming cousin Charles arrives bearing news of family tragedy, Eugenie's act of generosity ignites her father's rage and sets in motion a tale of forbidden love, financial manipulation, and the crushing weight of avarice in nineteenth-century French society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Translator Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908
Title Eugenie Grandet
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Grandet
Credits Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Subject Misers -- Fiction
Subject France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject French fiction -- Translations into English
Category Text
EBook-No. 1715
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Most Recently Updated Jan 27, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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