Cover image for Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Kathleen Raine ; introduction by Francine Prose ; notes by James Madden.
Title:
Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Kathleen Raine ; introduction by Francine Prose ; notes by James Madden.
ISBN:
9780375759079

9780679406716
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, 2002.
Physical Description:
xvii, 468 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Translation of: Cousine Bette.
Summary:
"...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'"--Cover, p. 4.
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OCLC Number:
ocm48003333
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