description: One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine, Eugenie Grandet portrays the fall of the Grandet household. In its record of financial acuity, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the social and economic consequences of the Revolution, we find a vigorous fictional document of the age.
language: English
title: Eugénie Grandet
titlecomplete: Eugénie Grandet (The World's Classics)
characters: Félix Grandet, Madame Grandet, Eugénie Grandet, Nanon, Cruchot des Bonfons, Charles Grandet
genres: Romance, Literature, 19th Century, Roman, Novels, French Literature, Fiction, Classics, France, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 22436
places: France, Saumur
series: La Comédie Humaine, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie de province
publisher: Oxford University Press