Cousin Bette

Author(s): Honoré De Balzac

Classics

Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.


Product Information

Honore de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 to a bourgeouis family. His first success with writing came with the publication of Les Chouans in 1829 which was followed by a vast collection of novels and short stories of which Cousin Bette, first published in 1847, is one of the chief novels. He died in 1850 only a few months after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, with whom he had conducted a romantic correspondence for 18 years. Marion Crawford translated two other titles for Penguin; Old Goriot and Eugenie Grandet before her death in 1973.

General Fields

  • : 9780140441604
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • : 0.324
  • : September 1965
  • : 202mm X 126mm X 21mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Honoré De Balzac
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 843.7
  • : 464
  • : FC