Author: Balzac, Honoré de

Price: $11.95

Category:Literature & Fiction
Publication Date:2008-10-15T00:00:01Z
Pages:528
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0199553947
ISBN:13:9780199553945
Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her own family. This new translation has an introduction by David Bellos which sets this work in its social, historical, and literary context.