Honoré de Balzac, Volume Four: Eugénie Grandet / Modeste Mignon

This beautiful edition is in fine condition. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. The green boards feature gilt lettering on the spine of each volume. Eugénie Grandet (1833) is one of Honoré de Balzac's most celebrated novels, part of his vast La Comédie humaine cycle. Eugénie has no legal or social autonomy; her fate is controlled by men and money. Modeste Mignon (1844) is also part of La Comédie humaine. Modeste's fantasy life is shaped by books and poetry; she falls for an idealized image rather than a real person, a critique of literary Romanticism itself.