Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Bette

La Comédie Humaine #56

Honoré de Balzac with James Waring (Translator)

16 hours, 25 minutes first pub 1846 (editions)

fiction classics dark reflective medium-paced
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Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot--and it is this...

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