Eugénie Grandet: Scenes of Provincial Life
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A miser in a provincial town has a fortune nobody suspects and a daughter whose whole inheritance he intends to keep from her; then a bankrupt cousin arrives from Paris with good manners. Balzac wrote it in 1833 and made cheeseparing into tragedy: every candle counted, every sou hoarded, and a life spent in one room. Forty-four plates by painters from Millet to Munch, gathered here in their forest, garden and woodland moods, give the novel's cramped provincial interiors their open-air counterpart.
A miser in a provincial town has a fortune nobody suspects and a daughter whose whole inheritance he intends to keep from her; then a bankrupt cousin arrives from Paris with good manners. Balzac wrote it in 1833 and made cheeseparing into tragedy: every candle counted, every sou hoarded, and a li...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines French society across the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines Fr...
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