| Cousin Bette Revised Edition Contributor(s): Balzac, Honoré de (Author), Raine, Kathleen (Translator), Prose, Francine (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375759077 ISBN-13: 9780375759079 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: "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 Comedie 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001051209 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 Com die 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." |