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1) Cousin Bette
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"Bette Fischer, a bitter and contemptuous woman, seeks to embroil her family in a series of scandals. With the help of a beautiful and willing accomplice, she plays on the weaknesses and desires of her victims in order to expose their vanity and egotism and to excuse her own. Cousin Bette, by master novelist Honoré de Balzac, is an intensely emotional work of fiction."--Cover, page [4].
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Eugénie Grandet (1833) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as Balzac began to formulate the grand scale of his La Comédie humaine sequence, Eugénie Grandet was eventually tied into the universe of his epic realist masterpiece, a holistic vision of nineteenth-century French society which sought to observe the consequences of the political, religious, and economic shifts of the Revolution and in its aftermath. This novel looks...
