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Cousin Bette

By Honoré de Balzac
Introduction by Francine Prose
Translated by Kathleen Raine

By Honoré de Balzac
Introduction by Francine Prose
Translated by Kathleen Raine

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Feb 12, 2002 | ISBN 9780375759079

Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
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About Cousin Bette

“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.”

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About Honoré de Balzac

The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris, where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in… More about Honoré de Balzac

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Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $16.00
Published by Modern Library
Feb 12, 2002 | 496 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375759079

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“Raine’s translations restore Balzac to his passionate and efficient outrage upon the expectations of fiction. This best of his novels is worthy to be ‘ours’—and now it is.” —Richard Howard

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