Cousin Bette

by de Balzac, Honoré
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ISBN: 9780375759079
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"Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying," wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac's La Com die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac's "huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality."
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: de Balzac, Honoré
  • ISBN: 9780375759079
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 496
  • Publication Year: 2002

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