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Cousin Bette ... Translated ... by Kathleen Raine

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and official dignitaries. The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes of ironic comedy and the eme.

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  • "Scenes from Parisian life"@en

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  • "Set in Paris in the early 19th century, this is a story of family life and of the evil caused by the malicious Lisbeth, who masks frustration and bitterness behind a facade of goodwill."
  • "" ... 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'"--Cover page 4."
  • "Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and official dignitaries. The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes of ironic comedy and the eme."@en
  • "Translation of the 1847 French novel about Lisbeth Fischer, a conniving poor relation whose relationship with her beautiful cousin's sexually indiscriminate husband offers her the opportunity to exact vengeance upon the family."@en
  • "A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her."
  • "A spinster gets revenge on her cousin's family by enlisting the help of a beautiful woman, after they take away the only man that mattered to her."@en
  • "The crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, Cousin Bette is regarded by many critics to be Balzac's last great work before his death in 1850. A fine example of European realist fiction, the story recounts the attempt of a disgruntled housewife to bring about the misery and destruction of her entire extended family. Fans of Tolstoy's War and Peace will enjoy Cousin Bette."@en
  • "Socio-romantic novel about how Bette ruins her cousin Adeline's marriage. Translation of a French classic."
  • "Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family."
  • "Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family."@en
  • "Cousin Bette is a woman of breath-taking malice. She plans and executes a diabolic plot of revenge against her own family for slights more imagined than real, destroying herself in the process."
  • ""...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'"--Cover, p. 4."
  • "Set in Paris, Cousin Bette tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. As in many of Balzac's novels, its characters represent polarities of contrasting morality. Critics hailed the book as a turning point in the author's art a prototypical naturalist text. Written in only two months, it is Balzac's last great work."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Family stories"
  • "Allegories"@en
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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
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  • "Powieść francuska"
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  • "La cousin Bette"
  • "Cousin Bette ... Translated ... by Kathleen Raine"@en
  • "Cousin Bette"
  • "Cousin Bette"@en
  • "COUSIN BETTE"
  • "Cousin Bette : part one of Poor relations"
  • "... Cousin Bette"@en
  • "Le cousin Bette"
  • "Cousin Bette part one of Poor relations"
  • "Cousin Bette : translated from the French by Kathleen Raine"@en
  • "'Cousin Bette'"

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