Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie Humaine #56

Cousin Bette

Honoré de Balzac with Sylvia Raphael (Translator)

490 pages paperback 1846

84 editions

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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 meticu...

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