Eugenie Grandet - Student Quality Library

Author: Luo Guanzhong
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Among the great figures, Balzac is one of the most distinguished; among the outstanding figures, he is one of the most eminent. His life was short, yet full, with more works than years. From now on, he will shine alongside the stars of his homeland in the clouds above us. Eugenie Grandet is a work that Balzac held in great esteem. Its publication laid a solid foundation for the development of 19th-century critical realism literature. The work masterfully portrays the character of Grandet, a ruthless, greedy, and miserly capitalist; it reveals the boundless greed and cold-bloodedness of capitalists; and exposes the immense destructive power of money on human family happiness and moral integrity.