Eugénie Grandet
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1833
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- French
- Length
- Medium · 220 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendEugénie Grandet, translated by Sylvia RaphaelOxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009Accurate and readable, with a helpful introduction and notes.
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In the provincial town of Saumur, old Grandet, a cooper turned millionaire, keeps his wife and daughter in cold rooms and counts every candle. When his ruined nephew Charles arrives from Paris, Eugénie falls in love with him and gives him her hoard of gold coins to make his fortune in the Indies. Her father's fury when he finds out, her mother's death, and Charles's eventual betrayal leave Eugénie the richest woman in the region, living as frugally as her father did. A study of avarice and of a woman's unspent love.
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