Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac 1961 The Heritage Press w/Slipcase New Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. #eugeniegrandet#honoredebalzac#Theheritagepress#vintagebooks#bookstore