In an oft-quoted conversation, this novel's author interrupted Jules Sandeau's description of his ill sister, asking instead that they "come back to reality" and discuss who this novel's protagonist will marry.
In an oft-quoted conversation, this novel's author interrupted Jules Sandeau's description of his ill sister, asking instead that they "come back to reality" and discuss who this novel's protagonist will marry. The narrator remarks that "if we could but read it, the whole history of France" is written on the old houses described in the opening passages of this novel. In this novel, a man who made his fortune as a slave trader in the Dutch East Indies returns to marry the aristocrat (*) Mademoiselle D'Aubrion and asks the protagonist to sell a gold box containing his parents' portraits. Fyodor Dostoevsky's first literary work was a Russian translation of this novel, whose protagonist receives 4 gold coins every year from her father to build up a dowry. The title character of this novel rebels against her miserly father Felix by giving her gold coins to her beloved cousin Charles, whose abandonment leads her to marry Monsieur Cruchot. For 10 points, name this novel which forms part of The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac.
In an oft-quoted conversation, this novel's author interrupted Jules Sandeau's description of his ill sister, asking instead that they "come back to reality" and discuss who this novel's protagonist will marry.
Eugenie Grandet