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Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (1998, Uk-Trade Paper)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100192836684
ISBN-139780192836687
eBay Product ID (ePID)44503
Product Key Features
Book TitleCousin Bette
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicLiterary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
FormatUk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews'Three Classic tales of sexual passion, perversion, and corruption have been added to the rapidly increasing World's Classics collection, whose repertoire of nineteenth-century French novels is now impressive. The price and format of these volumes make them an obvious choice for the readerapproaching them in translation, the more so since each is accompanied by a helpful general introduction ... the reader is likely to get better vaqlue here than from other translation currently in print.'Timothy Unwin, University of Western Australia, MLR, 89./2, 1994, '... translated here into lucid, straightforward, easily readable contemporary English.'Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. XXX, '... translated here into lucid, straightforward, easily readablecontemporary English.'Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. XXX, 'Appended to the text is a summary of its financial plots, the complications of which appear even more marvellous when extrapolated in this way. This is an introduction which is consistently enthusiastic about the complexity of a novel which, 'in its rich ambiguity, allows every reader toexplore his or how own imagination of what life is really like'.'Robert Lethbridge, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, French Studies, Vol. 47, Part 3
Dewey Decimal843/.7
SynopsisThis new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context., Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and official dignitaries. The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes of ironic comedy and the emergence of a younger generation which has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate. This new translation by Sylvia Raphael has an Introduction by David Bellos which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context., Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her own family. This new translation has an introduction by David Bellos which sets this work in its social, historical, and literary context., Cousin Bette has been described as Balzac's last great novel and a key work in his Comedie Humaine. Set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Philippe, it is the story of a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her own family.
LC Classification NumberPQ2178
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