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?

Collection	Narrator	Length
French	Peter Joyce	8 hrs 10 mins

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	7	5
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	FR-500CD	FR-500TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 059 3	978 1 86015 440 9
Price	£21.49	£17.99

Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815 - namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. His novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style.

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