by Honoré de Balzac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782845950245
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«La Cousine Bette» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Classiques Universals in paperback, in French.
The work focuses on Bette, an unmarried woman who, humiliated and marginalized by her family, weaves a silent revenge in 19th-century Paris. Her machinations and self-interested alliances gradually corrode the lives of her relatives while the narrative portrays the hypocrisy, ambition and moral decay of high French society.
It belongs to «La Comédie Humaine», Balzac's series in whose order it occupies position 56. The novel was originally published in 1846.
For readers of classic fiction and 19th-century French literature, interested in social portraits and the moral complexity of characters.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
