Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. Part of Balzacs La Comdie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the authors last fullyrealized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeares Othello and Tolstoys War and Peace.The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Bette Fischer, a 42yearold woman whose bitterness at remaining unmarrieddespite several proposals by men she deemed unworthydrives her to ruin the reputations and lives of her extended family. After rescuing the young sculptor Wenceslas Steinbock from suicide, Bette develops a complex affection for the man. When he falls in love with Hortense, the daughter of Bettes cousin Adeline, she hatches a plan to gain revenge for this perceived personal slight. She recruits the young and beautiful Valrie Marneffean unhappily married womanto seduce Adelines husband, Baron Hector Hulot, whose uncontrolled desires and extensive vanity both test his familys loyalty and stretch their finances to the furthest possible limit. Cousin Bette is an intense psychological drama and character study that burns with the fire of Balzacs critique of French society. While exposing the depths of human immoralityparticularly where money is made the center of personal relationshipsBalzac manages to remind us that what makes us human is not what drives us apart,...

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