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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. 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. "Cousin Bette" is a gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840s Paris. The culmination of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist.
| ISBN | 0140441603 | | Pages | 464 | | ISBN13 | 9780140441604
(What's this?) | | Part volume | Poor Relations | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 320 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Language | English | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 25 Jan 1973 | | Series title | Classics S. | | Non-book description | 443 p. ; | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Translator | M.A. Crawford | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PZ3.B22 CU, PQ2165.C5 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 843.7 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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