Honoré de Balzac · 1833
A miser's daughter in Saumur (translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley). Read Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac page by page and explore its network of 451…
May your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house.
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