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Cousin Bette

By: Sylvia Raphael - translator, Honoré de Balzac
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
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Honore de Balzac's classic book of revenge and passion in which the title character Bette plots the destruction of various men including her cousin-in-law, Baron Hector Hulot. Bette enlists the help of Valérie, an unhappily married young woman, to seduce Hulot, destroy his life, and take his family's fortune.

©1992 Sylvia Raphael (Translation); David Bellos (Introduction) (P)2013 Recorded Books

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