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Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousin Bette Honore de Balzac - Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice.Cousin Bette is a gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840's Paris. The culmination of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist.

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Download or read book The Cousin Bette written by Honore De Balzac and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes place between 1838 and 1843.Baron Hulot leads a libertine life that risks ruining his entire family. His wife, Adeline, is desperate because the Baron's escapades put their daughter Hortense's marriage in danger, to whom it will be difficult to offer a dowry. All this is taught to us by Célestin Crevel, the baron's debauchery companion, who informs the baroness of the situation, while clumsily trying to seduce her.Hortense, who inherited her mother's dazzling beauty, is not disconcerted by this situation. She learns from Lisbeth, an old maid, a cousin of the family, called Cousin Bette, that she has taken a young Polish artist, Wenceslas Steinbock, under her protection.She manages to meet the young artist and is immediately seduced. She introduced the young man to her parents, who also fell under the spell.The young man had no fortune, but Hortense was convinced that his talent, supported by the official commands that the baron's support would allow, would protect them from need. The marriage is therefore decided.But this union triggered the anger of Cousin Bette. She has been secretly jealous, since the beginning of her life, of her cousin Adeline. To get revenge, she joins forces with Valérie Marneffe, her attractive neighbour. Cousin Bette entrusted the latter with the mission of seducing the libertine baron and ruining the Hulot family. The courtesan had a superb apartment furnished at the Baron's expense and offered herself to him on the very evening of his daughter Hortense's wedding.We find the characters again in 1841. Three years have passed. The combined efforts of Cousine Bette and Valérie Marneffe have succeeded in putting the Hulot family in financial difficulty. Baron Hulot increasingly abandoned his wife and could not stop his mistress from spending her money. She also secretly became the mistress of Célestin Crevel, now Borough Mayor, and very proud to be the lover of this beautiful courtesan. The latter, thanks to the prodigality of her lovers and the advice of Cousine Bette, gradually built up a fortune.During the summer of 1841, everything accelerated. Valérie Marneffe meets Baron Montès, one of her former lovers who returned from Brazil and reconnects with him. Insatiable, she also seduced Wenceslas Steinbock, Hortense's husband, and was proudly courted by 4 lovers: Baron Hulot, Mayor Célestin Crevel, Baron Montès and Hortense's husband.Desperate, Hortense left her husband and went back to her mother's house.Not content with having caused the fall of the Huliot house, Cousin Bette decided to marry Marshal Hulot, the baron's eldest brother. In this way, she hopes to achieve greater social success than her cousin Adeline, of whom she is still secretly jealous.Alas, Marshal Hulot, devastated by the suffering caused to him by his brother's decline and ruin, died before the marriage. Baron Hulot, on the other hand, obtained unexpected help from one of his former mistresses and left his family.Almost two years have passed again. The Hulot family seems to have regained its serenity. In the father's absence, Victorin, his son, now reigns over the family. He is surrounded by his mother Adeline, his sister Hortense, and cousin Bette. But the lull cannot last. A new crisis broke out with the announcement of the wedding of Célestin Crevel, who was also Victorin's stepfather, and Valérie Marneffe. Outraged, the family refused to attend Crevel's wedding with this adventurer.An incredible machination will succeed in causing the deaths of Crevel and Valerie. The Hulot family can finally inherit the immense fortune left by this cursed couple.The baroness, who has straightforward ideas, manages to find her husband's trace and convince him to return to live in her home, which has returned to prosperity.Unable to tolerate Adeline's new happiness, cousin Bette died without having been able to confess or satisfy her hatred.

Download or read book Cousin Betty written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousin Betty Volume 2 By Honoré de Balzac Written in 1846 at the height of Balzac's powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the wealthy relatives on whom she depends and whose condescension she bitterly resents. As Bette's insidious deceit relentlessly unravels the lives of the obsessive womanizer Baron Hulot and his angelic wife, Adeline, Balzac displays a sense of verbal comedy as acute as Dickens's and creates a world that is vivid and densely real. Henry James considered him the greatest of all novelists; in Cousin Bette Balzac gives ample proof of his genius. Fox Searchlight's film adaptation, starring Jessica Lange and Elizabeth Shue, will be in theaters in June 1998. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Download or read book Cousin Pons written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.

Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honore de Balzac. Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valerie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please Valerie, who leaves him for a tradesman named Crevel. The book is part of the Scenes de la vie parisienne section of Balzac's novel sequence La Comedie humaine ("The Human Comedy")."One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. Among the Paris crowd, who are supposed to be so clever, there are some men who fancy themselves infinitely more attractive in uniform than in their ordinary clothes, and who attribute to women so depraved a taste that they believe they will be favorably impressed by the aspect of a busby and of military accoutrements."

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