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Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Kathleen Raine ; introduction by Francine Prose ; notes by James Madden.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Modern Library classics | Modern Library classicsPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 2002.Description: xvii, 468 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0375759077 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780375759079 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- Cousine Bette. English
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Main Library | Fiction | Balzac Hon | Available | 33111006451187 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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 Comedie 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."