by Honoré de Balzac · Bookking International - Classiques Francais · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877141543
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«La Cousine Bette» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Bookking International as a paperback (412 pages, in French).
The action takes place in nineteenth-century Paris and centers on Bette, an unmarried cousin who, after feeling humiliated by her family, plots a silent revenge against those who look down on her. The novel shows the moral decay of Parisian society through resentment, jealousy and ambition; it is considered one of Balzac's darkest works.
It was originally published in 1846 and belongs to the series «La Comédie humaine», where it occupies position 56.
For readers of nineteenth-century French classic novels and for those seeking the darker side of Balzac's realism.
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.
