Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cousin bette. Set in paris, cousin bette tells the story of an unmarried middleaged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. The main plot centers on cousin bette s revenge on her family. Cousin bette 1846 is considered to be balzacs last great novel, and a key work in his human comedy. Download cousin bette ebook for free in pdf and epub format. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. 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. Cousin bette ebook by honore balzac official publisher. Bette has secretly fallen in love with the polish count steinbock, and when adelines daughter hortense.
Read cousin bette online, read in mobile or kindle. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. It is a classic novel of revenge, passion, and vices. Free ebook offer available to new us subscribers only. The main plot lines are like 19thcentury soap operas, but the book itself is quite good.
Cousin bette also available in format docx and mobi. Free ebooks in english, french, german, spanish and other languages. Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin s family, on whom she depends. Bette works with valerie marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is baron hector hulot, husband to bette s cousin adeline. Its full of the usual balzac characters that you sort of love and hate, that are sometimes good and sometimes really awful. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a postnapoleonic france struggling with massive industrial and economic change, balzacs characters span many classes of. Set in mid19thcentury france, it tells the story of a woman who. Cousin bette carnegie library of pittsburgh overdrive.
Cousin bette project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A fine example of european realist fiction, the story recounts the attempt of a disgruntled housewife to bring about the misery and destruction of her en. His first success with writing came with the publication of les chouans in 1829 which was followed by a vast collection of novels and short stories of which cousin bette, first published in 1847, is one of the chief novels. Along with her beautiful but malicious friend, bette schemes to push the hulot family into. Bette is the poor cousin of adeline who married into money after meeting the then young and dashing baron hulot, and has depended on her relatives goodwill and patronage ever since. Sylvia raphael this new translation has an introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. Its a city full of temptations, in which money is king, morals are loose and the appeals of the virtuous are usually in vain. Unlock the more straightforward side of cousin bette with this concise and insightful summary and analysis.
Set in mid19thcentury paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middleaged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Set in the paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Critics hailed the book as a turning point in the authors art a prototypical naturalist text. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Cousin bette is considered by many as balzacs last great novel.
Set in mid19th century paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middleaged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. One more library free online ebooks in pdf, epub, kindle and other formats. James waring the crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, cousin bette is regarded by many critics to be balzacs last great work before his death in 1850. As in many of balzacs novels, its characters represent polarities of contrasting morality. Cousin bette 1846 is considered to be balzacs last great novel, and a key work in his. Hello select your address best sellers todays deals new releases customer service gift ideas books gift cards electronics home todays deals new releases customer service gift ideas books gift cards electronics home.
The crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, cousin bette is regarded by many critics to be balzacs last great work before his death in 1850. Lisbeth fischer cousin bette, adeline fischer hulot, hector baron hulot dervy, hortense hulot, pierre fischer, celestin crevel, celestin crevel. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read cousin bette. Appended to the text is a summary of its financial plots, the. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book.
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