An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac

An Historical Mystery

La Comédie Humaine #59

Honoré de Balzac

326 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics historical mystery dark slow-paced
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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 h...

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