Eugenie Grandet

by Honore de Balzac Narrated by Peter Joyce

Overview

Eugénie Grandet is Balzac's first great novel and one of the series Comédie Humaine. At the beginning of the story the heroine lives an unfulfilled life in rural France, her nature crushed by a domineering and miserly father.Gallant cousin Charles arrives and acts as a catalyst on Eugénie's personality and emotions. Will her love survive the strong self opinion of the young man and the selfishness of her father or is Eugénie's reward destined to be in heaven?

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

Balzac's 1834 King Lear-esque novel here gets a little fresh air breathed into it by Burton Raffel, who won the 1991 French-American Translation Prize.

From the Publisher

"This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end."  —Rose Tremain

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169623741
Publisher:	Assembled Stories
Publication date:	07/01/2006
Edition description:	Unabridged

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