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Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac (1991, Hardcover, Reissue) 
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac (1991, Hardcover, Reissue)

 
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac (1991, Hardcover, Reissue)

Author: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Series: Everyman's Library Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679406719
ISBN-13: 9780679406716
Product ID: EPID39804
Description: Balzac's heroine is a rejected spinster who brings down an aristocratic family. One of the last novels in his massive literary project, LA COMEDIE HUMAINE, COUSIN BETTE provides a grim view of human depravity and greed. On the novel's va...
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Synopsis
Balzac's heroine is a rejected spinster who brings down an aristocratic family. One of the last novels in his massive literary project, LA COMEDIE HUMAINE, COUSIN BETTE provides a grim view of human depravity and greed. On the novel's vast canvas, every class of society is portrayed, connected by the petty passions, loves, and hates that they all have in common. COUSIN BETTE brilliantly embodies Balzac's naturalist belief that human personality, and hence human destiny, is shaped by environment and upbringing. The novel is also fascinating in its depiction of the varied behavior patterns open to women in early 19th-century French society, from the use of beauty and deceit to advance in a man's world, to the ruthlessness of Cousin Bette, who is not beautiful and who must get by only on her wits.

Details
Publication Date:1991-09-01
Series:Everyman's Library Series
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Length:484 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:19.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Introduction by Michael Tilby; Translatoin by James Waring

Industry Reviews
"Balzac was by turns a saint, a criminal, an honest judge, a corrupt judge, a minister, a fob, a harlot, a duchess, and always a genius."
biography - Andre Maurois

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