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2) 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...
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