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Author/Contributor(s): |
de Balzac, Honoré; Raine, Kathleen; Prose, Francine
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Publisher: |
Modern Library
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Date: |
02/12/2002
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Binding: |
Paperback
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Condition: |
NEW
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“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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