The crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, cousin bette is regarded by many critics to be balzacs last great work before his death in 1850. Last week, around 30,000 people downloaded books from my site 8 people gave donations. Appended to the text is a summary of its financial plots, the. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project.
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Written in 1846 at the height of balzac s powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent cousin bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the wealthy relatives on whom she depends and whose condescension she bitterly resents. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author. Bettes father and adelines father were two of the fischer. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Free books of french literature in english, pdf, epub, mobi, fb2, azw3, kindle.
The main plot centers on cousin bette s revenge on her family. Constant toil is the law of art, as it is of life, says and demonstrated balzac. The culmination of the comedie humaine, balzacs epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist. It provides a thorough exploration of the novels plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of balzacs realism and his depiction of the power of money.
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