Eugenie Grandet

Author: Balzac
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The author of "Eugenie Grandet" is the great 19th-century Western European realist writer Balzac. This book is one of the representative works in his magnificent masterpiece "La Comédie Humaine" novel collection. Through the depiction of Grandet's family life, Balzac exposes the tragedy of human destruction and family disintegration caused by money. The miser Grandet is selfish and cold-blooded, using various means to coax his wife and daughter to accumulate wealth, utterly disregarding the happiness of his only daughter Eugenie Grandet. Eugenie is gentle and kind, rebelling against her father's harsh control for love, yet she is cruelly abandoned by her beloved cousin Charles, simply because Charles wants to. The novel is simple yet powerful, with clear and vivid descriptions, and the characters are distinct. Especially the miser Grandet is portrayed in a lifelike manner, becoming a famous typical figure in the history of world literature.