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020			_a9780199553945
082			_a843.7 _bBAL
100			_aBalzac, Honore de
245			_aCousin Bette
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2008 _aoxford:
300			_axxv, 490 p.; _c20 cm
365			_b10.99 _cGBP _d104.40
520			_aCousin 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...
650			_afiction
650			_aParis
650			_aSocial life and customs
650			_a Mid-19th century
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