Cousin Bette
A tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a portrayal of the bourgeois society of 1840s Paris. It features poor, plain spinster Bette who is compelled to survive on the patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the...
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A tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a portrayal of the bourgeois society of 1840s Paris. It features poor, plain spinster Bette who is compelled to survive on the patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780140441604 (0140441603)
Publish date: 1965
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Drama,
19th Century,
France,
French Literature
Series: Poor Relations
bookshelves: published-1846, france, winter20092010, classic, fraudio, revenge Read in January, 2010 - James Waring, Translator- Unabridged- 12 Tapes = 17 Hrs. 30 Mins- Blackstone Audiobooks- January 2000BLURB - “Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, s...
I've always wondered about the part in The Music Man, when an imposing woman wanders through spouting "Balzac!" at various points when they're worrying about the degeneration that is likely to happen to young people who don't have proper diversions, like a community band as opposed to things bound t...
"Ne može se živeti bez velikih zaborava."Kao priča za sebe, skoro savršena.Kao deo "Ljudske komedije", genijalna.Balzak mi polako postaje sve draži. Skidam slušalicu, nikad ovakav pisac od mene.
(Originally published on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/)Yayy, another book for school. I was not at all excited when I saw this book on my class reading list, and I wasn't any more excited when I got a look at the cover, saw the length or read the blurb. I have to say ...
- James Waring, Translator- Unabridged- 12 Tapes = 17 Hrs. 30 Mins- Blackstone Audiobooks- January 2000BLURB - “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 B...
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