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In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined to make his way in Paris; and Vautrin, his satanic tempter. Their lives all cross in the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris.

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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. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugénie's own desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with her father that results in tragedy for all. Eugénie Grandet is one of the earliest and finest works in Balzac's Comédie humaine cycle, which portrays a society consumed by the struggle to amass wealth and achieve power. Here Grandet embodies both the passionate pursuit of money, and the human cost of avarice.M. A. Crawford's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the irony and psychological insight of Balzac's characterization, the role of fate in the novel, its setting and historical background.Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, La Comédie humaine, is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe.If you enjoyed Eugenie Grandet you might like Molière's The Miser and Other Plays, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Publicado en 1839 como apéndice de la Fisiología del gusto del ilustre gastrónomo Brillat-Savarin, este "Tratado de los excitantes modernos" es un delicioso ensayo sobre el alcohol, el azúcar, el té, el café y el tabaco. El gran escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) dirige su aguda e irónica mirada a estas cinco sustancias para incidir en su estudio analítico de la sociedad del XIX y mostrarse, en palabras del autor de esta nueva traducción, Julio Baquero Cruz, como el héroe de la modernidad que era y nunca dejará de ser.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasColección: Historia y presente,4Han tenido que pasar casi dos siglos para que podamos leer en castellano esta obra del todo actual. Ahora que la prensa habla de la muerte de la prensa ?tal como la conocemos? pocos libros son más oportunos en su salida a la calle que este de Balzac, uno de esos tan famosos del que muchos hablan sin haberlo leído.Con la Monografía de la prensa parisina , Balzac nos ofrece un retrato de la época en el que refleja las pasiones, la mediocridad, los intereses de una profesión que ya entonces había definido su estructura y sus características. Por eso esta obra resulta hoy tan actual, es más, su actualidad es realmente sorprendente. La Monografía es, pues, un retrato agridulce de la profesión periodística del momento, en el que la audacia y la perspicacia de su pluma nos permiten esbozar una sonrisa mientras nos acercamos al corazón del periodismo francés entonces imperante para conocer a los hombres de la Prensa

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'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugénie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugénie has never known passion. Now, in an instant, she falls in love and her life is changed forever. Monsieur Grandet will not countenance his daughter's marriage to her penniless cousin and Eugénie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father.

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