Eugénie Grandet (Vintage Classics)
Book Details
Author(s)
Balzac, Honoré De, Tremain, Rose
Publisher
Vintage Classics
ISBN / ASIN
0099560860
ISBN-13
9780099560869
Availability
In Stock
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Published in association with the Orange Prize for fiction, with an introduction by Rose Tremain, describing why she chose it as the book she'd like to pass on to the next generation
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Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugénie's 23rd birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugénie has never known passion, but now, in an instant, she falls in love and her life is changed forever. Monsieur Grandet will not countenance his daughter's marriage to her penniless cousin and Eugénie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father. 
