
“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.”
Paperback
496
Random House Publishing Group
2002-02-12
en
Height: 7.96 Inches, Length: 5.18 Inches, Weight: 0.88846291586 Pounds, Width: 1.03 Inches
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