Eugenie Grandet (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Balzac, Honore De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099560860 ISBN 13: 9780099560869

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

THIS ORANGE INHERITANCE EDITION OF Eugénie Grandet IS PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION

Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Rose Tremain chose Eugénie Grandet.

Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugénie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugénie has never known passion. Now, in an instant, she falls in love and her life is changed forever. Monsieur Grandet will not countenance his daughter's marriage to her penniless cousin and Eugénie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father.

'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain.

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Review:

"This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end." --Rose Tremain

Book Description:

CHOSEN BY ROSE TREMAIN AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE - Vintage Classics has partnered with The Orange Prize for Fiction to ask six recipients of the Prize which book they would pass onto the next generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099560860
• ISBN 13: 9780099560869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256