In a quiet provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, wealth is measured in gold—but the cost is counted in human hearts. In Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac crafts a haunting portrait of love, greed, and silent sacrifice.Eugénie, the innocent and devoted daughter of the miserly Félix Grandet, grows up in a house where money rules above all else. Her father’s obsession with fortune shapes every breath within their cold stone walls—until a charming cousin from Paris awakens in her a longing f ...