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Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

✓ ReadPublic DomainThe Human Comedy

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugénie’s own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. Eugénie Grandet is one of the earliest a...

First published 1833298 pages
843.7
Category
Literature
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
14
Editions known
261
Classification
Dewey (DDC)
843.7
Library of Congress (LCC)
PQ2166.A3 S7PQ2166 A1 1967PQ2166.A3 J4PQ2166.A31 1992
Subjects
Aesthetics.Balzac, Honore De, 1799-1850Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Endowment of researchEugenie GrandetFictionFiction, generalFrance, fictionFrench literatureHistory and criticismManners and customsNovela francesa
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ISBN 9780140440508English
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First published1833
Film adaptation1910
Film adaptation1921
Film adaptation1947
TV adaptation1965
TV adaptation1994
Film adaptation2021
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Adaptations

Works adapted from Eugénie Grandet.

  • FilmEugénie Grandet (1910)
  • FilmThe Conquering Power (1921)
  • FilmEugenia Grandet (1947)
  • TVCross of Gold (1965)
  • TVEugénie Grandet (1994)
  • FilmEugénie Grandet (2021)

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