Word: grandet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France in the first half of the 19th century. He understood every nuance of provincial ambition, every deadly trap a great city lays impersonally for the young adventurer and the sick old man alike. Some of his characters' names have become inter changeable with vices- old man Grandet with avarice, Cousin Bette with envy...