# Cousin Bette

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- Book: [Cousin Bette](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/cousin-bette) ([Cousin Bette.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/cousin-bette.md))
- Authors: [Honoré de Balzac](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-907-9
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2002-02-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine,...