by Honoré de Balzac · Millenium · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301250
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«Eugénie Grandet: La comedia humana» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Millenium in hardcover (253 pages, in Spanish).
Eugénie, a young woman from Saumur, lives oppressed by the avarice of her father, a wealthy merchant. When her cousin Charles arrives ruined, she discovers love and gives him her savings to help him, while Balzac portrays greed, innocence and romantic disillusionment in nineteenth-century bourgeois society.
Originally published in 1833, it ranks 30th in La comedia humana. This Spanish edition belongs to the Las 100 joyas del milenio collection and includes a prologue by Javier García Sánchez.
A representative novel of the La comedia humana cycle, intended for readers of nineteenth-century French literature.
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.
