false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180015042m/985726.jpg 59142 96 'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. 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. 1399014 1965 Eugenie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics) total:687|5:178|4:250|3:199|2:52|1:8| 687 2599 1055 44 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 1 false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 20:52:37 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 21:01:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 111737 014044050X 9780140440508 71 4 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171652834m/111737.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111737.Eugenie_Grandet 5 1 false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 03:02:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 02:39:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 3 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 16 00:00:58 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 00:00:58 -0800 2008 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.]]> 111737 014044050X 9780140440508 71 4 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171652834m/111737.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111737.Eugenie_Grandet 5 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:54:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:09:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 2 0 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:30:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:54:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 0 1 false Tue Jun 17 21:41:04 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 21:43:00 -0700 2008 TRISTE!!!]]> 985726 2253003867 9782253003861 33 4 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180015042m/985726.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985726.Eugenie_Grandet 5 1 false Fri Mar 21 13:50:59 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 13:53:17 -0700 2008
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 récupé...more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 false Sun Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 22:00:44 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 22:14:02 -0800 2008
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, un...more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 3 0 false Tue Mar 20 11:47:35 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 04 00:56:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 2 0 false Wed Jun 17 02:56:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:37:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 3 0 false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:14:52 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:20:05 -0700 2009 The House of the Seven Gables, and reminded me strongly of Hawthorne.more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 06:33:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 08:18:28 -0700 2009 A c...more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 0 0 false Fri Jun 12 11:53:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 11:55:03 -0700 2009 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 false Sat Jun 06 05:52:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 05:55:27 -0700 2009 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 3 0 false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 14:35:45 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 15:37:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 2 0 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 16:38:20 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 16:40:32 -0700 2009 never to tell the truth
for Eugenie becomes rich
but her life is dull
and at the end I'm wondering
why Balzac bothers at all]]> 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Thu Oct 15 11:14:28 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:16:32 -0700 2009 111737 014044050X 9780140440508 71 4 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171652834m/111737.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111737.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 12:28:51 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 18 10:08:01 -0700 2007 It's a portrait of a miser, although the title is his daughter's name. Set in france during the early 1800's (in the time it was written), it's amazingly modern in its view of cut-throat capitalism (am I being redundant here?) and materialism's pervading inf...more...]]> 2058876 2070409287 9782070409280 5 1 3.78 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2058876.Eug_nie_Grandet 3 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:34:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:35:23 -0700 2009 59142 019280474X 9780192804747 498 30 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170529940m/59142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eugenie_Grandet 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sat Aug 29 23:00:04 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 23:01:10 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=985726