Eugï¿½nie Grandet

Name: Eugï¿½nie Grandet
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ISBN: 9780199555895

ISBN-10: 0199555893

ISBN-13: 9780199555895

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Authors: Honorï¿½ de Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast, Eugï¿½nie Grandet

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'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?'This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routineby the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial…

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List price: $9.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 6/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.60" wide x 5.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Gloria Davies is a literary scholar and historian of China at Monash University in Australia. She is also Adjunct Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University.Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin translation of "In Search of Lost Time".