Cousin Bette
$28.56
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1965
Summary
‘Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a city’
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris - her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140441604 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140441603 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1965 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 to a bourgeouis family. His first success with writing came with the publication of Les Chouans in 1829 which was followed by a vast collection of novels and short stories of which Cousin Bette, first published in 1847, is one of the chief novels. He died in 1850 only a few months after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, with whom he had conducted a romantic correspondence for 18 years. Marion Crawford translated two other titles before her death in 1973.
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