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843.7 BAL The unknown masterpiece ; and, Gambara | 843.7 BAL Lost illusions | 843.7 BAL Eugenie Grandet | 843.7 BAL Cousin Bette | 843.7 BEL Novel of the century : the extraordinary adventure of Les Miserables | 843.7 BRO Balzac's lives | 843.7 DUM Count of monte cristo |
Cousin Bette is one of the best loved and most admired of Honore de Balzac's novels. A tale of seductive women and philandering men, of passionate affairs and spiralling debts, Cousin Bette paints a vivid portrait of Paris in the 1830s and '40s. It's a city full of temptations, in which money is king, morals are loose and the appeals of the virtuous are usually in vain. In the midst of it all sits a poor relation, Cousin Bette, like a spider in her web...
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