“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 Com?die 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.”
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 02/12/2002
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780375759079
Language: English
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