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1) Cousin Bette
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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 Balzacs 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 Balzacs “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring...
2) Père Goriot
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot was has spent most of his fortune on his two daughters, Anastasie de Restaud and Delphine de Nucingen, and his poverty makes him a subject of mockery amongst the other boarders. Rastignac meets the daughters, and hopes to use the rivalry between the sisters to his advantage. He begins...
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