Eug�nie Grandet is an 1833[1] novel by French author Honor� de Balzac, about miserliness and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eug�nie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized.[citation needed] Balzac conceived his ambitious project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eug�nie Grandet and incorporated it into the Com�die by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition, which he also ...
Read More
Eug�nie Grandet is an 1833[1] novel by French author Honor� de Balzac, about miserliness and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eug�nie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized.[citation needed] Balzac conceived his ambitious project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eug�nie Grandet and incorporated it into the Com�die by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition, which he also dedicated to Maria Du Fresnay, his then-lover and mother of his daughter Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay, and, as was proved later on, the "real" Eug�nie Grandet.
Read Less
