Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's __Eugénie 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 his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugénie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. __Eugénie Grandet__ is one of the earliest and finest works in Balzac's __Comédie humaine__ cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. Here Grandet embodies both the passionate pursuit of money, and the human cost of avarice.
M. A. Crawford's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the irony and psychological insight of Balzac's characterization, the role of fate in the novel, its setting and historical background.
Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, __La Comédie humaine__, is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe.
If you enjoyed __Eugenie Grandet__ you might like Molière's __The Miser and Other Plays,__ also available in Penguin Classics.

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Eugenie Grandet (The Human Comedy)

Honore de Balzac

Eugénie Grandet

Honore de Balzac; Honor ̌de Balzac

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

Ladybird Books Ltd

Penguin Books

Penguin classics, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1981, ©1955

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Penguin classics, London, 2004

April 30, 1955

New Ed, 1955

lg2943396

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Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) INTRODUCTION
2. (p2) Eugenie Grandet

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them.

IN some country towns there exist houses whose appearance weighs as heavily upon the spirits as the gloomiest cloister, the most dismal ruin, or the dreariest stretch of barren land.

Published in 1833
Part of Balzac's "Comédie Humaine"

2021-02-21