Name: Cousin Betty
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9789357270069

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

428

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.4 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9789357270069

Synopsis "Cousin Betty"

The novel La Cousine Bette, sometimes known as Cousin Bette, was written by French novelist Honoré de Balzac in 1846. It tells the tale of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plans to destroy her extended family and is set in the middle of the 19th century in Paris.Adeline Hulot is coerced into having an affair at the beginning of the book by a wealthy perfumer who wants her to date with Josépha Mirah, one of his favorite singers. The Baron has showered Mirah with money to the extent that he has borrowed considerably from his Uncle Johann. Unable to pay back the loan, the Baron arranges for Johann to work for the War Department in Algeria, with the understanding that Johann will be in a position to steal the borrowed funds.Josépha rejects Baron Hulot, telling him straight out that she has chosen another man due to his wealth.Uncle Johann is detained in Algeria and kills himself; the Baron is abruptly forced to resign; his brother, a well-known war hero, rescues him from prison; and he soon passes away in humiliation over the family scandal. The family is crushed by these constant setbacks, and Bette keeps her schemes hidden from them entirely.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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