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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense.

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honoré de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics.

Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice. The culmination of the Comédie humaine, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840s Paris, Cousin Bette is one of Balzac's greatest triumphs as a novelist.

Marion Ayton Crawford's lively translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the novel's portrayal of rapidly changing times, as the new, ambitious middle classes replaced France's old imperial ways.

Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, La Comédie humaine, is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe.

If you enjoyed Cousin Bette, you might like Balzac's Old Goriot, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 december 2004

Aantal pagina's: 464

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Honoré de Balzac

Tweede Auteur: Honoré de Balzac

Co Auteur: J. Waring

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics

Eerste Vertaler: Kathleen Raine

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 20 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 126 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 511 g

EAN: 9780140441604

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