Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

A miser's gentle daughter sacrifices everything for a cousin who forgets her, and inherits a fortune that buys her nothing but solitude. Balzac's quiet, devastating portrait.

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