| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 26 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
La Comédie Humaine ; bk. 56 |
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De Balzac, Honore.
La Comédie Humaine. Spoken word ; bk. 56
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Johanna Ward. |
| Summary |
Bette is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot, appetites that will, in time, give Cousin Bette opportunity to exact her vengeance. Balzac described Cousin Bette as one of his "scenes of Parisian life," and it is certainly that. It offers us a hypnotic vision of that infinitely varied city during the bright, vital, scandalous, and sexually untrammeled era of King Louis-Philippe. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Allegories.
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| Added Author |
Ward, Johanna.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982432751 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982432756 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10027299 |
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