Eugene Sue's two gripping moral dramas, Avarice and Anger, plunge into the destructive force of the Seven Cardinal Sins with all the suspense, melodrama, and psychological tension of vivid nineteenth-century fiction. In Avarice, hidden treasure, forged letters, inheritance, and the obsessive pursuit of money entangle a miser, a determined father, a capricious beauty, and others whose loyalties are tested by greed. Mariette's patient devotion to her bitter godmother, a humble old man's reverent gratitude, and Louis Richard's charitable life all deepen the story's emotional core before a stunning revelation: the father long believed dead has survived a railway disaster and returns to find his son has turned family wealth into a force for compassion. Anger turns darker still, tracing duels, revenge, confessions, bribery, and buried secrets as one act of rage poisons lives for years. Judge Yvon Cloarek's volatile honor, his resistance to corruption, and the lively household around a provincial masquerade ball build toward urgent confrontations, comic relief, and emotional reckoning. Together, these tales expose how avarice and anger distort judgment, fracture families, and test the possibility of redemption. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.