by Honoré de Balzac · ORBIS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300207
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«Eugenia Grandet» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Orbis in hardcover (218 pages, in Spanish).
The work portrays the life of Eugenia Grandet in the French city of Saumur, where her father, a miserly winegrower, accumulates a great fortune and controls every expense of his family. The arrival of her cousin Charles, ruined by the death of his father, awakens Eugenia's love and confronts her with paternal tyranny, the ambition of local suitors, and a society obsessed with money.
The novel is part of Balzac's series «La comedia humana». This Orbis edition belongs to the collection Historia universal de la literatura, volume 1.
Suitable for readers of classic fiction and for those who want to discover one of the most celebrated works of nineteenth-century French realism.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
