Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac · 1833 CE · Novel · French · Romantic

In a cold house in Saumur the cooper Grandet, who has made a fortune nobody in town can total, allows his wife and daughter one fire a year and weighs out the sugar himself. Eugénie's Paris cousin Charles arrives on the evening of her birthday, orphaned and ruined, and she puts her hoard of gold coins into his hands. Balzac's tightest provincial study, and the book that fixed the miser as a nineteenth-century type.

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• parallels ↑ The Miser
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