Eugenie Grandet - Softcover

Balzac, Honore De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070360318 ISBN 13: 9782070360314

Publisher: Schoenhofs Foreign Books, 1972

Synopsis

Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its own condition.
Translated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R. Jameson
Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. His publications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures of the Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming.

From the Back Cover:

Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzack to be the greatest of all novelist. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schoenhofs Foreign Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 2070360318
• ISBN 13: 9782070360314
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256