Eugenie Grande by Honore de Balzac | 1932 | The Book League of America Edition

The classic French novel Eugenie Grandet by Balzac was first published in 1883. This 1932 version was translated by Katherine Prescott Wormely and published during the Great Depression by The Book League of America.

ABOUT EUGENIE GRANDET (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the Comédie. He dedicated the edition to Maria Du Fresnay, who was then his lover and was the mother of his daughter, Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay.

ABOUT HONORE DE BALZAC (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

ABOUT BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club. It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York. A victim of the Great Depression, the Book League of America was purchased by Doubleday in 1936.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Eugenie Grandet
• Written by Honore de Balzac
• 294 page, linen, embossed & gilded hardcover
• Published by The Book League of American, 1932
• Measures 7 3/4" x 5 1/4"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In excellent condition
• Binding is nice and tight
• Almost no wear on the covers
• Pages have yellowed a bit but otherwise in excellent condition

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