by Honoré de Balzac · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422676133
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«La prima Bette» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (546 pages, in Spanish).
Set in nineteenth-century Paris, it tells the story of a middle-aged unmarried woman who, driven by envy and resentment, hatches a plan to destroy her own family. Balzac portrays with irony the passions, ambitions and hypocrisy of Parisian society in a plot of intrigue and revenge.
It belongs to Balzac's series «La comedia humana», in position 56; this edition is from 1999 and the original was published in 1846.
A read for those who enjoy nineteenth-century classic literature and stories of revenge and family intrigue.
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.
