Eugénie, Grandet Old Man Gao (Translation: Classics Library) 021

Author: (French) Balzac, H. (Author), Wang Zhensun (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Balzac (1799—1850) was a literary giant of 19th-century France. Eugenie Grandet and Pere Goriot are his representative works. Eugenie Grandet vividly recreates the provincial life of 19th-century France, portraying a variety of characters, particularly depicting the cunning and miserly nouveau-riche figure of Grandet, exposing the monetary relationships between people in society at the time. Pere Goriot, on the other hand, describes the bizarre and diverse social landscape of Paris through the stories that unfold in the (Fogey's boarding house) in a remote district of Paris. The author examines and judges life with exceptional artistic skill.