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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House
ISBN-100099560860
ISBN-139780099560869
eBay Product ID (ePID)143641096
Product Key Features
Book TitleEugénie Grandet
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicClassics, Family Life
GenreFiction
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight7.3 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end." -Rose Tremain, "This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end." --Rose Tremain
Synopsis'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain 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 Eugenie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugenie has never known passion. 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 Eugenie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father., 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 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 Eug nie's 23rd birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eug nie 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 Eug nie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father., 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 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.