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Cousin Bette / Honoré de Balzac ; translated with notes by Sylvia Raphael ; with an introduction by David Bellos.
LIBRA PQ2165.C5 E5 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Cousine Bette. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 490 pages : map ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [xxii]).
- ISBN:
- 0192836684
- OCLC:
- 41359978
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