Eugénie Grandet

About this film

LibriVox recording of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie Eugénie Grandet , first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story deals with money, avarice, love, and obsession. A wealthy old miser must manage the passion of his innocent daughter, who later has to navigate on her own the treacherous ways of a world in which money is "the only god." Balzac's meticulous use of psychological and physical detail influenced the development of 19th-century literary realism, in the hands of writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, and Henry James. - Summary by Bruce Pirie For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (200MB)

Directors & creators

Honoré de Balzac

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;tragedy; France; nineteenth century; realism; la comedie humaine; avarice; the human comedy

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