Cousin Bette (Revised)

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ISBN-10: 0375759077
ISBN-13: 9780375759079
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 02/12/2002
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 1.10" H

Cousin Bette (Revised)

byHonore De Balzac
Translator: Kathleen Raine
Introduction by: Francine Prose

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Price: $16.00

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“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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"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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Details

ISBN-10: 0375759077
ISBN-13: 9780375759079
Publisher: Modern Library
Publish Date: 02/12/2002
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 1.10" H
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