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'Who is going to marry Eug nie Grandet?'

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honor de Balzac's Eug nie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with... Read Full Overview

This is a painfully drawn portrayal of private life, but its wider subject-matter also makes it a fictional document of post-revolutionary France. Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical... Read Full Overview

'Who is going to marry Eug nie Grandet?'

Extrait: Six habitants seulement avaient le droit de venir dans cette maison. Le plus consid?rable des trois premiers ?tait le neveu de monsieur Cruchot. Depuis sa nomination de pr?sident au tribunal de premi?re instance de Saumur, ce jeune homme avait joint au nom de Cruchot... Read Full Overview

Ce roman a pour ? personnage ? principal la fortune du p?re Grandet. Celui-ci ? a su ? que Bonaparte signerait le Concordat et qu'on pouvait sans risque s'approprier ce qui appartenait aux communaut?s religieuses; mais anticipant le retour possible des nobles ralli?s ? Napol?on... Read Full Overview

Eugenia Grandet (Eug nie Grandet) es una novela de Honor de Balzac publicada por primera vez en el semanario L'Europe litt raire (Europa literaria) en septiembre de 1833, primer a o de la revista. El t tulo de esta primera edici n era Eug nie Grandet, histoire de province. Se... Read Full Overview

Eug nie Grandet (1833) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. Written as Balzac began to formulate the grand scale of his La Com die humaine sequence, Eug nie Grandet was eventually tied into the universe of his epic realist masterpiece, a holistic... Read Full Overview

Published in association with the Orange Prize for fiction, with an introduction by Rose Tremain, describing why she chose it as the book she'd like to pass on to the next generation Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household... Read Full Overview

Ce roman a pour ? personnage ? principal la fortune du p?re Grandet. Celui-ci ? a su ? que Bonaparte signerait le Concordat et qu'on pouvait sans risque s'approprier ce qui appartenait aux communaut?s religieuses; mais anticipant le retour possible des nobles ralli?s ? Napol?on... Read Full Overview

En ciertas ciudades de provincia se encuentran casas cuya vista ins?pira una melancol a igual a la que producen los claustros m s som?br os, las lan-das m s desoladas o las ruinas m s tristes. Y es que tal vez en eses casas se unen el silencio de los claustros, la aridez de las... Read Full Overview

Eug?(c)nie Grandet by Honor?(c) de Balzac is a novel about miserliness, and how it is passed on from the father to the daughter, Eug?(c)nie, through her unhappy love attachment with her cousin.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community... Read Full Overview

"Eugenie Grandet" par Honore de Balzac. Honore de Balzac etait un romancier, critique litteraire, essayiste, journaliste et ecrivain francais (1799-1850)"