Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac, Marion Crawford

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Penguin Classics
01 June 1964

One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession.

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.

By: Honoré de Balzac
Translated by: Marion Crawford
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780140440508
ISBN 10: 014044050X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 June 1964
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850. M. A. Crawford has translated many of Balzac's novels for the Penguin Classics