Publisher’s summary
The Bette referred to in this magnificent novel’s title is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline’s husband, Baron Hulot – appetites that will, in time, give Cousin Bette opportunity to exact her vengeance.
Balzac described Cousin Bette as one of his “scenes of Parisian life”, and it is certainly that. It offers us a hypnotic vision of that infinitely varied city during the bright, vital, scandalous, and sexually untrammeled era of King Louis-Philippe. The courtesans, swindlers, bankers, artists, murderers, detectives, and saints populating this world pass before us invested with a verve and vividness unsurpassed in the history of the novel.
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