![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Generation which has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate. The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes of ironic comedy and the emergence of a younger ![]() Workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and official dignitaries. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Workers and wealthy courtesans to successful busines. ![]()
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