Cousin Bette 0192836684, 9780191587320, 019158732X

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Cousin Bette
 0192836684, 9780191587320, 019158732X

Table of contents :
Cover --
Copyright Page --
Title Page --
Contents --
Introduction --
Note on the Text --
Select Bibliography --
A Chronology of HonorÉ De Balzac --
Map --
COUSIN BETTE --
1. Where will love find a niche? --
2. From father-in-law to mother-in-law --
3. Josépha --
4. The perfumer's sudden access of pity --
5. The way to arrange a marriage for a beautiful girl with no money --
6. The Captain loses the battle --
7. A woman's fine life-story --
8. Hortense --
9. Character sketch of an old maid --
10. Bette's admirer --
11. Conversation between an old maid and a young one. 12. Monsieur le Baron Hector Hulot d'Ervy --
13. The Louvre --
14. In which one can see that pretty women cross the libertine's path, just as dupes put themselves in the way of scoundrels --
15. The Marneffe household --
16. The artist's attic --
17. An exile's story --
18. The adventure of a spider who finds in her web a beautiful fly that is too big for her. --
19. How couples separate in the thirteenth district --
20. One woman lost, one woman found --
21. The daughter's romance --
22. Let girls have their way --
23. An interview. 24. In which chance, which often brings about true romances, makes things go so well that they cannot continue like that for long --
25. Marneffe's strategy --
26. A terrible indiscretion --
27. Final secrets --
28. Bette's transformation --
29. The life and opinions of Monsieur Crevel --
30. A continuation of the preceding chapter --
31. Caliban's last attempt to keep Ariel --
32. Failed revenge --
33. The way many marriage contracts are made --
34. A magnificent example of a devoted follower. 35. In which the tail-end of an ordinary novel comes in the middle of this story which is only too close to reality, touches on the amatory, and is frighteningly moral. --
36. The two brides --
37. Moral reflections on immorality --
38. In which we can see the result of Crevel's opinions --
39. Handsome Hulot dismantled --
40. One of the seven plagues of Paris --
41. Cousin Bette's hopes --
42. The extremities to which libertines reduce their legitimate wives --
43. The grieving family --
44. The dinner --
45. Back from the dead with afortune --
46. The age at which a ladies' man becomes jealous. 47. First scene of clever feminine play-acting --
48. A scene befitting a porter's lodge --
49. Second scene of clever feminine play-acting --
50. Crevel takes his revenge --
51. Master Crevel's little house --
52. Two brothers-in-arms --
53. Two crazy fanatics --
54. Another view of a legitimately married couple --
55. What makes great artists --
56. Effect of the honeymoon on the arts --
57. Of sculpture --
58. In which can he seen the power of that socially disruptive force, poverty. --
59. Reflections on beauty spots --
60. A fine entrance.

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