Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
306 pages~5 hrs
“In a house built on greed, love is the ultimate extravagance.”
Locked away in a house where every penny is a prisoner, Eugénie Grandet's quiet life is shattered by the arrival of her dashing Parisian cousin and the awakening of first love. Balzac crafts a haunting portrait of the battle between a father’s obsession with gold and a daughter’s yearning for the soul.
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