Cousin Bette (The World's Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192826069 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, June 1992
Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine...
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Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her ownfamily. This new translation has an introduction by David Bellos which sets this work in its social, historical, and literary context.
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