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  • Published: 15 February 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375759079
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $49.99

Cousin Bette




“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 Comédie 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 Balzac’s “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.”

  • Published: 15 February 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375759079
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $49.99

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