Cousin Betty by Honoré de BALZAC (1799 - 1850), translated by Ellen MARRIAGE (1865 - 1946)
Genre(s): Literary Fiction
Read by: Bruce Pirie in English
Parts:
Part 1 [ Ссылка ]
Part 3 [ Ссылка ]
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 20 - Chapter 20
00:24:41 - 21 - Chapter 21
00:58:27 - 22 - Chapter 22
01:29:39 - 23 - Chapter 23
01:55:08 - 24 - Chapter 24
02:22:22 - 25 - Chapter 25
02:49:30 - 26 - Chapter 26
03:08:44 - 27 - Chapter 27
03:37:46 - 28 - Chapter 28
04:09:41 - 29 - Chapter 29
04:44:30 - 30 - Chapter 30
05:13:46 - 31 - Chapter 31
05:54:06 - 32 - Chapter 32
06:27:29 - 33 - Chapter 33
Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a woman who resents her position as a 'poor relation.' As we follow her schemes to bring ruin upon the more privileged members of her family, we see a society in transition. The stability and idealism of the old order give way to a new bourgeois world in which virtue is strangled in the struggle for power and money. In this novel, Balzac searchingly probes the psychology and motivations of his characters: his work influenced the development of literary realism, as practised by writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Proust, and Henry James. - Summary by Bruce Pirie
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