Eugenie Grandet

Eugenia Grandet ( Eugenie Grandet ) is a novel by Honore de Balzac first published in the weekly L' Europe littéraire ( literary Europe) in September 1833 , the first year of the magazine. The title of this first edition was Eugénie Grandet , histoire de province . It was already published in book form in 1834 , at the publishing house of Madame Charles- Béchet ; Later , in 1839 , at the publishing of Gervais Charpentier, with a dedication to that Balzac he had been lover : Maria du Fresnay . In the Furne edition, 1843 , the novel was part of the series The Human Comedy , in the first volume of Scènes de la vie de province ; and , within it, it was between novels and Pierrette Ursule Mirouët .