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"A character sketch of a loathsome miser whose greed has warped his own life and made miserable the lives of his wife and daughter."
"Una de las novelas más impresionantes de su ciclo "La comedia humana", y considerada por muchos como su obra maestra, en Eugenia Grandet, Balzac pintó un retrato inolvidable y elocuente de un avaro a quien nada le importa ni tiene escrúpulo alguno con alguien, ni siquiera con su hija, con tal de aumentar sus riquezas. Las maquinaciones del viejo miserable y la forma como destruye una serie de vidas, incluso la de su hija Eugenia, conforma un profundo estudio psicológico, además de una novela apasionante que en ningún momento pierde su interés. Junto con el personaje Moliere, esta descripción de una de las más desafortunadas taras humanas, ocupa lugar destacado dentro de la literatura."
"H. Balzac wrote nearly 100 novels and short stories. N. Bleynie reads one of his best known novels 'Eugénie Grandet', which is part of the French writer's and chronicler's vast cycle 'La comédie humaine'."
"Eugénie, jeune fille belle et généreuse, vit à Saumur avec son père Félix, avare et tyrannique, sa mère effacée et leur servante. Un soir, Charles, son cousin parisien, débarque avec une lettre de son père qui, ruiné, vient de se suicider. Eugénie s'éprend de lui malgré les réticences de son père."
"The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. -http://www.booksinprint.com."
"Eugénie Grandet is Balzac's first great novel and one of the series Comédie Humaine. The heroine lives an unfulfilled life in rural France, her nature crushed by a domineering and miserly father. Gallant cousin Charles and acts as a catalyst on Eugénie's personality and emotions. Will her love survive the strong self opinion of the young man and the selfishness of her father or is Eugénie's reward destined to be in heaven?"
"Eugénie Grandet is Balzac's first great novel and one of the series Comédie Humaine. At the beginning of the story the heroine lives an unfulfilled life in rural France, her nature crushed by a domineering and miserly father. Gallant cousin Charles arrives and acts as a catalyst on Eugénie's personality and emotions. Will her love survive the strong self opinion of the young man and the selfishness of her father or is Eugénie's reward destined to be in heaven?"
"This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin."@en