Marion Ayton Crawford
1) The Chouans
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The Human Comedy volume 1
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English
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"The Chouans" is the tale of the Royalist uprising in Brittany against the post-revolutionary republic. -- From product description
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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely,...