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Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac · 1833 · Romance, Drama & Literary
In a cold house in Saumur, one of literature's great misers counts his gold while his daughter quietly falls in love. Balzac's portrait of avarice — and of the patient, ruinous devotion it feeds on.
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This edition
- Title
- Eugénie Grandet
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
- First published
- 1833
- Illustrated plates
- 45 original artworks · 16 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 15 · about 65,926 words
- Reading time
- 4 h 24 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- July 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #1715
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