Eugénie Grandet
Author: first_name: Honoré de
last_name: Balzac
Language: English
Year: 1886

<i>Eugénie Grandet</i>, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled <i>La Comédie Humaine.</i> Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story deals with money, avarice, love, and obsession. A wealthy old miser must manage the passion of his innocent daughter, who later has to navigate on her own the treacherous ways of a world in which money is "the only god." Balzac's meticul