<p>Honoré de Balzac's 'Eugenie Grandet' is a searing exploration of greed, family dynamics, and the socio-economic class struggles of provincial France. Through Balzac's meticulous prose and literary naturalism, the reader is plunged into the parsimonious household of the titular character, whose life is constrained by her avaricious father. This classic of the realist genre is a pivotal component of Balzac's magnum opus, 'La Comédie Humaine', en...