Eugenia Grandet / Piel De Zapa by Honoré de Balzac
A piercing study of provincial life follows the sheltered daughter of an obsessive miser whose kindness and naivety are crushed by familial avarice and thwarted love, revealing the corrosive effects of wealth and social ambition; in a darker, fantastical tale, an impoverished seeker obtains a magical shagreen that grants wishes while shrinking with each use, forcing him to confront the tragic cost of fulfilled desire, the tension between fate and free will, and the ruinous consequences of unrestrained longing.
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- Published
- 1831
- Nationality
- French
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- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Eugenia Grandet
- Eugénie Grandet
- La Peau de chagrin
- Piel de zapa
- The Magic Skin
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