Eugenie Grandet

Author: [French] Balzac
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is a part of the French life scenes in "La Comédie Humaine" and is one of Balzac's representative works. Through depicting the family life of the Grandet family, the novel portrays the image of a cunning, greedy, miserly, and cruel nouveau riche, Grandet, exposing the naked monetary relationships between people of that era and telling the story of how money destroys human nature and creates family tragedies. This book is a selected edition with color illustrations.