Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Bette

La Comédie Humaine #56

Honoré de Balzac with Kathleen Raine (Translator)

496 pages first pub 1846 (editions)

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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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