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Cousin Bette
Michael Tilby | Honore de Balzac

Cousin Bette

David Campbell (Sep 26, 1991)
9781857150155
| Hardcover
484 pages | 130 x 210 mm
Dewey 843.7

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Allegories
  • Fiction
  • France
  • Social Life And Customs
  • Translations Into English

Plot

A hypnotic story of hatred, revenge and catastrophe in which Cousin Bette exacts a terrible price from the rich relations who use and humiliate her. This book portrays the world of post-Napoleonic France, where commercial greed and sexual debauchery are rampant among a demoralized ruling class. (Everyman's Library Classics, #15)

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