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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
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"Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying," wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac's "La Comedie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac's "huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality."
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- Title Cousin Betty
- Author Honore De Balzac
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kessinger Publishing
- Date 2004-06-17
- ISBN 9781419114267 / 1419114263
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.88 in (23.50 x 19.05 x 2.24 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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