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Eugenie Grandet
Paperback Edition: 1/1992
This is a painfully drawn portrayal of private life, but its wider subject-matter also makes it a fictional document of post-revolutionary France.
Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion.
One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its own condition.
Translated by Ellen Marriage with an Introduction by Fredric R. Jameson.
Pages : 288
Publisher : Random House
Publication date : 1992-11-03
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction