Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Man Without a Face
Author: Isabelle HollandPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064470288
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Charles didn't know much about life ... until he met The Man Without a Face "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him ...... Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed ""The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love. ‘Not much affection had come Charles’s way until the summer he was fourteen, when he met McLeod [a man whose face was deeply scarred] and learned that love has many facets.’ —BL. ‘A highly moral book, powerfully and sensitively written; a book that never loses sight of the human." —H. 1972 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970-1983 (ALA) Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)
Eugenie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fictio
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Père Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacComédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacEugenie Grandet
Author: Honore De BalzacEugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 9780460001694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.
Eugenie Grandet
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734084067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac