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Eugenie Grandet

by Balzac Honoré de

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A “Human Comedy” of Honoré de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright, one of his earliest novels.
Eugenie Grandet was one of the most desirable fiancée of Saumur. Her father, a cooper in his past, became rich during the Revolution. The story is centred around the struggle between Eugenie and her father, which begun when she falls in love with her penniless cousin Charles. The madness about money makes him completely inhuman and cruel. Creating a human comedy Balzac posed a problem, new for the literature of that time. He aspired to portray, without pity but truthfully, the France of the 19th century, the real life of his contemporaries. In “Eugenie Grandet” he applies to the destructive power of money over people.
Balzac’s works are still popular among the wide readership, old and young, discovering in his novels the key to understanding of human soul.

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..._Liaisons dangereuses_. ""Ah! that book is infinitely more moral, " said the abbe, laughing. "But you make me out as wicked as a young man of the present day; Ionly meant--""Do you dare to tell me you were not thinking of putting wicked thingsinto my head? Isn't it perfectly clear? If this young man--who I admitis very good-looking--were to make love to me, he would not think ofhis cousin. In Paris, I know, good mothers do devote themselves inthis way to the happiness and welfare of their children; but we livein the provinces, monsieur l'abbe. ""Yes, madame. ""And, " she continued, "I do not want, and Adolphe himself would notwant, a hundred millions brought at such a price. ""Madame, I said nothing about a hundred millions; that temptationmight be too great for either of us to withstand. Only, I do thinkthat an honest woman may permit herself, in all honor, certainharmless little coquetries, which are, in fact, part of her socialduty and which--""Do you think so?""Are we not bound,...