Eugenie Grandet

Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or

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1955. Paperback. Very Good.

1955. Paperback. Very Good.

Book French Novel in translation. Ding back cover, small tear front cover at spine head(from bump) and front lower left corner is also bumped. Text is clean.

Book French Novel in translation. Ding back cover, small tear front cover at spine head(from bump) and front lower left corner is also bumped. Text is clean.

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248 pages. Softcover. Good condition. FICTION. (Key Words: Fiction, Honore de Balzac ).

248 pages. Softcover. Good condition. FICTION. (Key Words: Fiction, Honore de Balzac ).

New York. 1955. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Edition. Very Good

New York. 1955. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Edition. Very Good In Wrappers. ISBN: 014044050x. Translated from the French by M. A. Crawford. 248 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail from ‘The Morning Hour' (Morgenstunde) by Moritz von Schwind, in the Schackgalerie, Munich. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The theme of Balzac's Comedie humaine is primarily that of the struggle to amass money and achieve power. This is seldom more evident than in EUGENIE GRANDET, one of the earliest and finest of the novels in his great work. The love of money and passionate pursuit of it are seen as a driving force in post-Revolutionary France, and are studied in detail in the character of Grandet. In a house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and his daughter, Eugenie, who both suffer under the stifling shadow of his obsession with gold. But the arrival of her cousin, Charles, causes Eugenie's own desires to burn. The inevitable collision with her father, and the tragedy which follows, is described by Balzac with irony and characteristic psychological insight. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics. An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was an apprentice in a law office, but he turned his back on the study of law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician; he failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal difficulties, and he ended several friendships over critical reviews. In 1850 he married Ewelina Hanska, his longtime love; he died five months later. inventory #17975.