Cousin Bette
Lisbeth Fischer, the plain peasant cousin kept at the edge of the Hulot family, has spent her life being thanked for small services by relations who never look at her twice. When the young Polish sculptor she has taken under her protection is taken from her by her cousin's daughter, she makes an alliance with the beautiful Madame Marneffe and sets her at the Baron, whose appetite for women is already eating the household. Written in six weeks by a man who knew he was ill, and the most concentrated malice in the Comédie humaine.
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