Excerpt from Eugénie Grandet; Modeste Mignon It is also difficult to make too much allowance for the fatal effect of an education under an insignificant if amiable mother and a tyrannical father, and of a confinement to an excessively small circle of extremely provincial society, on a disposition of more nobility than intellectual height or range. Still it must, I think, be permitted to the advocatus diaboli to urge that Eugenie's martyrdom is almost too thorough; that though complete, it is not, as Gautier said of his own ill luck, artistement complet; that though it may be difficult to put the finger on any special blot, to say, Here the girl should have revolted, or, Here she would have behaved in some other way differently still there is a vague sense of incomplete lifelikeness - of that tendency to mirage and exaggeration which has been, and will be, so often noticed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Daha az göster