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Cousin Betty

First published: 1846
Pages: 395

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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
27:46
Chapter 15
24:57
Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
25:55
Chapter 20
24:42
Chapter 21
33:46
Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
40:19
Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
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Poor, plain, and quietly seething, the aging spinster Bette nurses a lifetime of resentment against the wealthy relatives who patronize her, and she sets out to destroy them from within. Allied with a beautiful, scheming young wife, she plays on the lusts and vanities of the Hulot family until fortunes collapse and reputations burn. One of the last and greatest novels in Balzac's vast Human Comedy, it is a merciless anatomy of desire, money, and revenge in the Paris of Louis-Philippe. Few of his books move with such dark energy or expose the machinery of ruin so precisely. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.