- Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
- Imprint: Everyman
- ISBN: 9781857150155
- Length: 484 pages
- Dimensions: 211mm x 30mm x 132mm
- Weight: 610g
- Price: £10.99
Cousin Bette
Format:
Buy the book from:
Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valérie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes of lust, greed and virtue, Balzac delivers a powerful, absorbing literary classic, and an unmissable read
About the series
The finest editions available of the world's greatest classics from Homer to Achebe, Tolstoy to Ishiguro, Proust to Pullman, printed on a fine acid-free, cream-wove paper that will not discolour with age, with sewn, full cloth bindings and silk ribbon markers, and at remarkably low prices. All books include substantial introductions by major scholars and contemporary writers, and comparative chronologies of literary and historical context.