Eugénie Grandet (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Honoré Balzac
- First Published: 1833
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Saumur, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Fathers, Greed, Money, Loneliness, Wealth
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
Eugénie Grandet (ew-zhay- NEE grahn-DAY), the young heiress to a fortune, who lives in the world but is not of it. Reared without a childhood in the penurious surroundings of Saumur, a provincial French town, Eugénie for a brief period lives in the love of her cousin, newly orphaned and a guest in the Grandet home. Strong of character and handsome in appearance, she pledges herself to young Charles Grandet and remains true to him throughout her life. As an obedient daughter of parents and Church, she tries to live righteously but defies her father in the...
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