Set in early nineteenth-century Paris, Cousin Bette is the sexy yet compassionate story of the exploits of the aristocratic Hulot family and their poor but honorable cousin. Baroness Adeline Hulot's dying wish is that her sister, Bette, take care of her husband, Baron Hector Hulot, and her children. The saintly Adeline is unaware, however, of the resentment that the always disregarded Bette harbors against her, When Baron Huiot rapidly depletes the family fortune on his mistresses and his beautiful daughter marries the penniless young sculptor whom Bette secretly loves, her bitterness becomes unbearable. Bette is determined to receive her just reward, even if she must wrestle fate in order to do it. 作者简介:
Honoré de Balzac was born at Tours in 1799,the son of a civil servant.Marion Ayton Crawford taught English Language and Literature in the Technical College at Limavady,North-ern Ireland until she died in 1973.She translated five volumes of Balzac for Penguin Classics:Cousin Bette,Domestic Peace and Other,Eugenie Grandet ,The Chouans,And Old Goriot.
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