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Eugenie Grandet

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Main Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Knopf, c1992.
Series:Everyman's library
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France > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
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Item Description:Translation of: Eugénie Grandet.
Physical Description:p. cm.
ISBN:0679417168 :
Author Notes:The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.

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