Eug Nie Grandet
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Paperback, 176 pages
Published
September 15th 2007
by BiblioLife
(first published 1833)
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This was a delight! Eugenie is no conniving female, spoiled brat, or cynical woman of the world. Living in a small town in the wine region far from Paris, she is a sheltered girl, completely without artifice and eventually to become a very wealthy woman. She doesn't know that however. Her father is as miserly as they get. His only goal in life is to acquire further wealth, and yes, he loves to see and count his gold. Some of his financial shenanigans, as well as the currency references, went ove...more
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Felix Grandet is a cooper from provincial Suamur in the times of Napolean and the restoration in France. A combination of business savvy and some fortuitous inheritances have made him rich, which he builds on, driven by his worship of wealth and miserly habits.
His only heir will be his daughter Eugenie, which makes her the centre of local attention and the Cruchot and Des Grassins families vie for her affections.
Into the mix arrives her cousin Charles, a Paris dandy of gentle manner...more
His only heir will be his daughter Eugenie, which makes her the centre of local attention and the Cruchot and Des Grassins families vie for her affections.
Into the mix arrives her cousin Charles, a Paris dandy of gentle manner...more
Since I had to spend hours sitting in the doctor's office this morning with my daughter, I took my kindle and got caught up in this story. Talk about a love story full of intrigue and backstabbing and heartache.
Eugenie is a lovely girl with an awful father. He was a cask maker in a town that depended on the vineyards for survival. From cask maker he progressed up society's ladder and soon was a wealthy man. His big problem was he was so tight with his money. His wife had brought ...more
Eugenie is a lovely girl with an awful father. He was a cask maker in a town that depended on the vineyards for survival. From cask maker he progressed up society's ladder and soon was a wealthy man. His big problem was he was so tight with his money. His wife had brought ...more
Balzac’s Eugenie Grandet is a wonderful novel that describes the consequences of extreme greed. Pierre Grandet is shrewd businessman who lives for money. Eugenie although, extremely rich lives like a pauper because her father refuses to even provide basic necessities of life. Her hand in marriage is being sought by two candidates M. Cruchot and M des Grassin. Unexpectedly, her 23 year cousin arrives from Paris. He grew up in affluent household and flaunted his wealth. His father went bankrupted ...more
A heartclenching pain-turner of a classic, a perfect manifesto for choosing love over money. The French do desolation and hopelessness so well! Must be the heat. In certain respects, Eugénie gets off lightly. She steals a kiss with her cousin before her bastard father packs him off to the Indies to get rich off slave plantations, and stays a virgin her whole life for that one moment of stolen love. Nowadays, anyone marrying their cousin would be hounded out the hamlet, Daily Mails flung at their...more
It's not quite as good as Pere Goriot or Lost Illusions, but I really liked Eugenie Grandet. I can hardly believe that Balzac wrote nearly a hundred of these novels. Balzac's powers of description are superb. He can compare a woman to a piece of dried fruit, and you can see her perfectly in your mind. Who would think of comparing a person to dried fruit? But it works.
You could call this a morality tale: avarice leads to unhappiness. Eugenie's father is the epitome of greed. Even on ...more
You could call this a morality tale: avarice leads to unhappiness. Eugenie's father is the epitome of greed. Even on ...more
This is a masterpiece! It's a very gripping read, and has fantastic characters drawn with great skill and economy. The heroine, Eugenie Grandet, is one of Balzac's feminine models of virtue and a deeply sympathetic character. There is plenty of rivalry, plotting & scheming and a touching love story - all the elements of a great book...
Clunky. Pere Goriot is better. Balzac likes caricatures of people, but he also likes realism, and that creates problems I think. But I liked it. The French do this "society novel" thing better than the English. Because in France it ends in tears.
Considered one of Balzac's masterpieces--and deservedly so. The character of Monsieur Grandet, the title character's father, can be reduced to a single quality: avarice. For him it is not what money can buy that brings happiness, but just the accumulation of money itself. While his obsession destroys his wife and injures his daughter Eugenie, the latter is ultimately a victim not of her father but of her own obsessive love for her Cousin Charles, a Parisian with morals the simple girl from S...more
I read Eugenie Grandet after a long period of non-classics reading and till the end, I just thought either the way people in 18th century thought was too simple or the way we think is too complicated, because the characters happened to seem so predictable too me. The good ones were too stupid and the bad ones were caricatures of villains. In my opinion nothing really important happened during the story and if it wasn't for the reducing number of pages, I would've thought the main story hasn't be...more
This was another good book By Balzac. A story about the Grandet's, mother, daughter Eugenie and the father who was a very rich miser. All he cared about more than life was his money. Eugenie love for her cousin Charles only to be betrayed by him, a selfish, egotistical man. Eugenie winds up rich after her mother and father dies, and goes through life as being unhappy. The only thing she has left is Nanon, and the love of her religion. She gives her money to help those in need.
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A classic story of love n hope...
TRISTE!!!
TRISTE!!!
Another worthless, boring classic with all the minuses the classics have, and much more. I've read half of it.
It's a long-long story about an obsessed with money, pathetic old man, that thinks wealth is more important than l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y anything, and plans to get more and more money until he dies, even though he's old and rich already, and doesn't even care about his offspring, and it's all incredibly pointless.
Basically all you'll read about is this. The book contains few "...more
It's a long-long story about an obsessed with money, pathetic old man, that thinks wealth is more important than l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y anything, and plans to get more and more money until he dies, even though he's old and rich already, and doesn't even care about his offspring, and it's all incredibly pointless.
Basically all you'll read about is this. The book contains few "...more
“Eugénia Grandet” é um romance que se devora rapidamente, com uma narrativa limpa, fluida e descritiva quanto baste.
No entanto, a história deste livro quase que nos transporta para o universo literário de Júlio Dinis, no qual a acção se passa entre nobres e pobres, cidade "versus" campo e em que o “boy meets girl” está sempre presente e cujo desfecho se adivinha nas primeiras linhas de texto. Felizmente Balzac, como realista que se preze, é desprovido de lamechices exageradas e n...more
No entanto, a história deste livro quase que nos transporta para o universo literário de Júlio Dinis, no qual a acção se passa entre nobres e pobres, cidade "versus" campo e em que o “boy meets girl” está sempre presente e cujo desfecho se adivinha nas primeiras linhas de texto. Felizmente Balzac, como realista que se preze, é desprovido de lamechices exageradas e n...more
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Eugénie Grandet est fille d’un aisé tonnelier. Spéculateur et génie avare, c’est ainsi qu’il est devenu riche. Il enferme tout à clé, donne la ration à sa femme, sa fille et sa bonne, et se débrouille toujours pour récupérer tout ce qu’il est obligé de dépenser. Eugénie, courtisée par de nombreux hommes assoiffés d’argent et de pouvoir, tombera amoureuse d’un cousin sans le sou. Elle se sacrifiera pour lui et, touché par sa bonté, il ...more
Eugénie Grandet est fille d’un aisé tonnelier. Spéculateur et génie avare, c’est ainsi qu’il est devenu riche. Il enferme tout à clé, donne la ration à sa femme, sa fille et sa bonne, et se débrouille toujours pour récupérer tout ce qu’il est obligé de dépenser. Eugénie, courtisée par de nombreux hommes assoiffés d’argent et de pouvoir, tombera amoureuse d’un cousin sans le sou. Elle se sacrifiera pour lui et, touché par sa bonté, il ...more
Finished!
I suppose Eugenie is up there as one of my favorite heroines.. in a hesitant manner.
She is too innocent, too good,and too naive, and when she learns the ways of the world, she becomes a saint (not actually). Yet, I really like her. I think I just enjoy long-suffering, unrequited, quasi-saintly expressions of 'love'.
Monsieur Grandet is so interesting. so flawed, but so interesting. for me, he is the the exploration of the flaw of avarice carried out to its...more
I suppose Eugenie is up there as one of my favorite heroines.. in a hesitant manner.
She is too innocent, too good,and too naive, and when she learns the ways of the world, she becomes a saint (not actually). Yet, I really like her. I think I just enjoy long-suffering, unrequited, quasi-saintly expressions of 'love'.
Monsieur Grandet is so interesting. so flawed, but so interesting. for me, he is the the exploration of the flaw of avarice carried out to its...more
I read Balzac first, when I was very young, and I enjoyed the stories very much. The second time was when I became interested in history. That was even better. One (who?) has said that ”for better understanding France in 19. century, you’d better read Balzac”. He is the auther of ”Studies of Manners in the 19th. century”!
بار اول بی آن که به تاریخ علاقمند باشم، از خواندن بالزاک لذت بردم. سال ها بعد که تاریخ برایم به شیرینی رمان بود، خواندن دوباره ی بالزاک چندین برابر لذت داشت. "ک...more
بار اول بی آن که به تاریخ علاقمند باشم، از خواندن بالزاک لذت بردم. سال ها بعد که تاریخ برایم به شیرینی رمان بود، خواندن دوباره ی بالزاک چندین برابر لذت داشت. "ک...more
A touching story, even if i believe that Eugenie somehow diserved her faith, as she could have done something to prevent it or at least change it. But, as the contemporary society did not allow her or just her stupidness and her narrow mind (caused by her simple, anost life),she never forgot Charles and married another one in order to do " what was right" at that age. After her husband's death,she doesn't do anything ele but charity... Poor stupid girl!
Can't say I went crazy for this one. Pere Grandet is a tyrant, a bully, whose avarice is as bad as his selfishness. Kind of hated the guy, so when he finally dies I thought his daughter would have some happiness. But her life sounds just as depressing as the life her mom had before she died. Yep, can't say I got the point of so much awful stuff. Oh, and all that money, the calculations and the need for it, just made it all worse.
Tretchery. Tretchery is the word one thinks of with this book. Eugenie is a young innocent girl who lives in the country side with her eldery father and prematurely aged mother and one old "faithful" servant, Nanon. She is unaware of the business trasactions her father makes and how money rules and dominates life. Throughout his life, her father, uses his wife and daughter as pawns to accumlate more money. But the biggest irony of all is that he never gets a chance to enjoy hi...more
It's how life was for some women then, and still is for some today. Never for a moment did I think 'not plausible', so good is Balzac's character delineation. Baddies are not too bad - would the old man have grown so obsessive if the women hadn't bought into it? - and although Eugenie herself is saintly in some respects she shows enough of her paternal inheritance to be believable. I must read more BalzC.
This was the first Balzac that I read. I, in haste, thought I would hate it, but I ended up really liking it. I think it's so good because Balzac really makes the reader feel the frustration with the father who is such a miser. And we also feel sympathy for Eugenie... she's naive, but sweet and, in my opinion, a fairly likable character. After having read this, I will definitely read more Balzac.
I have enjoyed Eugenie Grandet for for the 3rd time in the past 30 years, and consider it one of Balzac's best: the classic story of avarice, greed, and stoic suffering. I listened to it this time, however, I must admit, read by an excellent donneuse de voix "Pomme" (in French) and free at: http://www.litteratureaudio.com/livre-au...
Nice story.Although itself nothing extremely innovative the writing style and the great psychological analysis of the characters gave a unique feeling to this book.I also liked the every day sense and the hard reality of the plot.Once again I realize what a hard world this is for women.Especialy back then.As the writer commented:In every situation, women have more cause for grief than men and suffer more.
بالزاک چه هنرمندانه کاری کرد که قطره ای از اشکهای اوژنی برایت ارزشی بیشتر از کل ثروت فرانسه داشته باشد.
فکری است که در همه جا نوشته شده است و دامنه ی آن تا قوانینی که از مقنن می پرسد: چه قدر پول می دهی؟ به جای آنکه بگوید: چه عقیده ای
داری؟ گسترش یافته است. و وقتی که این مسلک و مرام از طبقه ی توانگر به توده مردم برسد سرنوشت کشور چه خواهد شد؟
عصمت یگانه چیزی است که می تواند به چنین کارهای بی باکانه ای دست بزند. فضیلت وقتی به رموز و اسرار آگاه باشد، مثل فساد حسابگر می شود.
فکری است که در همه جا نوشته شده است و دامنه ی آن تا قوانینی که از مقنن می پرسد: چه قدر پول می دهی؟ به جای آنکه بگوید: چه عقیده ای
داری؟ گسترش یافته است. و وقتی که این مسلک و مرام از طبقه ی توانگر به توده مردم برسد سرنوشت کشور چه خواهد شد؟
عصمت یگانه چیزی است که می تواند به چنین کارهای بی باکانه ای دست بزند. فضیلت وقتی به رموز و اسرار آگاه باشد، مثل فساد حسابگر می شود.
Starts very slow with a lot of descriptive paragraphs. Whole pages are devoted to describing the ornate decorations on a door. Once the action starts however, 7 years can pass in the space of a sentence or two. The characters are kind of flat, but interesting nonetheless. Overall, it feels a lot more dated and of its time than Gogol (the only other author of the early 1800s I can recall reading right now). The whole plot seems kind of contrived and constructed, with characters in place to serve ...more
کتاب اصلا کشش داستانی ندارد.نمیدونم داستایفسکی کبیر از چیه اوژنی گرانده خوشش اومده..هرچند سبک نوشتن بالزاک به شدت تاثیر گذار در سبک داستایفسکی است.ولی در مجموع کتاب تاثیرگذاری نبود.
A father's greed enslaves he and his family, but quite a bit of comedy appears in the novel, especially when the young dandy cousin comes from Paris to cut a dashing image among the provincials. The story could be a prequel to The House of the Seven Gables, and reminded me strongly of Hawthorne.
This one started slow and seemed to drag until about halfway through. Then it picked up. I read The Christmas Carol right after this (I did not even think nor know that Eugenie was about a miser), so I had a fun opportunity to compare to representations of misers as main characters. Old Grandet comes across as more enveloped in his avarice, more obsessed, than Scrooge. Even if Grandet had changed his ways, he still acted genuinely mean and greedy. Another wonderful story by Balzac.
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