by Honoré de Balzac · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432038341
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«Eugénie Grandet» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Planeta in paperback (202 pages, in Spanish).
Eugénie, daughter of a miser obsessed with wealth, lives under her father's tyranny. Falling in love with her cousin Charles and helping him with family debts, she encounters ingratitude and disillusionment. A critical portrait of provincial French society in the 19th century, it addresses greed, oppression, and lack of scruples.
Originally published in 1833, it is part of La Comédie humaine (position 30). This Spanish edition includes an introduction by Gabriel Oliver.
For readers of classic novels and 19th-century French literature interested in social portraits and family dramas.
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.
