
"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of The Human Comedy series. It tells the story of a young woman, Eugénie, who grows up under the rule of her miserly father, Félix Grandet, a wealthy winemaker. She dreams of love and happiness but faces the harshness and greed of the world around her. The novel explores themes of avarice, the power of money, and the tragedy of sincere emotions in a merciless bourgeois society.