Eugénie Grandet is a 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his grand project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eugénie Grandet and incorporated it into the Comédie by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition.

《欧仁妮·葛朗台》讲述了一个老箍桶匠葛朗台靠囤积居奇、投机倒把，成为当地首富。他刻薄吝啬，把金钱看得重于一切，不惜逼走因父亲破产自杀来投靠他的侄子，折磨把自己的私蓄送给堂兄作盘缠的欧仁妮，并因为反对女儿与落难公子的爱情，把袒护女儿的妻子虐待致死。他所有的乐趣都集中在积聚财物上，死时留下一份偌大的家私，却无补于女儿的命运。作品塑造了葛朗台这一典型的吝啬鬼形象，深刻暴露了资产阶级家庭中纯粹的金钱关系。