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Cousin Bette - Honor de Balzac

English
2002-02-12
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โ€œBette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,โ€ wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzacโ€™s La Comรฉdie 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 Balzacโ€™s โ€œhuge, al ... Full description

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โ€œBette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,โ€ wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzacโ€™s La Comรฉdie 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 Balzacโ€™s โ€œhuge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.โ€

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Author Honor de Balzac
Publisher Random House Publishing Group
Release year 2002
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9780375759079
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