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"Eugénie Grandet" is the representative work of Balzac, the "father of modern French novels". It is included in the "Studies of Customs" and "Scenes of Provincial Life" in his masterpiece "The Human Comedy". It is regarded as "one of the most outstanding pictures" in this monument in the history of world literature. Through a network structure model, Balzac takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line and Eugénie's love tragedy as the core of contradiction, comprehensively showing the French society in the first half of the 19th century, and at the same time describing the diverse and complex characters. In the work, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.
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