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Honoré de Balzac
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Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics) |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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496 |
| Date: |
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2002-02-12 |
| ISBN: |
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0375759077 |
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Modern Library |
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0.8 pounds |
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1.0 x 5.18 x 7.95 inches |
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2 katiiis (USA: CA), Scikitsch (USA: DE) |
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2 Jamie Hill (USA: MA), WmAnthony (USA: MO) |
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Product Description
“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.”
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