Length17h 21m
About this audiobook
La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré 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 Valérie 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 Valérie, who leaves him for a well-off merchant named Crevel. The book is part of the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of Balzac's novel sequence La Comédie humaine ("The Human Comedy").
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length17 hrs 21 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DEDICATION
2COUSIN BETTY
3“WENCESLAS.”
4“CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS.” (pt. 1)
5“CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS.” (pt. 2)
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6“CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS.” (pt. 3)
7“CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS.” (pt. 4)
8“VALERIE.”
9“YOUR HECTOR, FOR LIFE.”
10“YOUR HECTOR.”
11“ALGIERS.
12“FROM THE PRISON AT ORAN.
13“JOHANN FISCHER.”
14“HECTOR.” (pt. 1)
15“HECTOR.” (pt. 2)
16ADDENDUM
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