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Cousin Bette

Honore de Balzac

Este libro historico puede tener numerosos errores tipograficos y texto faltante. Los compradores pueden descargar una copia gratuita escaneada del libro original (sin errores tipograficos) desde la editorial. No indexado. No se muestra. 1888 edition. Extracto: ...of the same work; though it is-a great proof of a man's inferior nature when he does not know how to make his wife his mistress. Constancy will ever be the genius of Love; the sign of an immense force, --the force that constitutes a poet. A man should find all women in his wife, --just as the soiled poets of the seventeenth century made Chloes and Daphnes of their Manons. "Well," said Lisbeth to Wenceslas, as soon as she saw him thoroughly fascinated, " what do you think of Valerie?" "Too charming!" he answered. "You would n't listen to me," exclaimed Bette. "Ah, my little Wenceslas! if you and I had stayed together you should have been the lover of this siren; you should have married her when she became a widow, and had the benefit of her forty thousand francs a year." "Has she all that?" "Certainly," said Bette. "But take care now what you are about; I have warned you of your danger; don't burn your fingers. Come, give rue your arm, dinner is ready." No speech could have been more demoralizing to a Pole; show him a precipice and he springs over it. The Polish race has the distinctive genius of cavalry; it believes in flinging itself headlong against obstacles and coming out victorious. The spur with which Lisbeth prodded his vanity was enforced by the scene in the dining-room, where an exquisite silver service made him conscious of the elegancies and refinements of Parisian luxury. "I should have done better," he reflected, "to have married Celimene." During dinner Hulot, who was pleased to find his son-in-law present, and still more pleased at the certainty of reconciliation with Valerie, of whose fidelity he now felt sure, since he could promise her Coquet's place, made himself delightful....

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148 pages, 65 editions

English edition · First published 1846 by General Books · ISBN 9781230225913

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Editions

60 editions

English

  • Cousin Bette · General Books · 2013 · ISBN 9781230225913 · 1 reader This page
  • Cousin Bette · Independently published · 2025 · ISBN 9798285575344
  • Cousin Bette · Phoemixx Classics Ebooks · 2021 · ISBN 9783986475079
  • Cousin Bette · Mint Editions · 2020 · ISBN 9781513268255
  • Cousin Bette · Mint Editions · 2020 · ISBN 9781513218960
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press · 2020 · ISBN 9780191921865
  • Cousin Bette · Digireads.com Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781420968644
  • Cousin Bette · Independently published · 2020 · ISBN 9798614385545
  • Cousin Bette · Spartacus Books · 2020 · ISBN 9780599909762
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press · 2020 · ISBN 9780191587320
  • Cousin Bette · Naxos and Blackstone Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781799955771
  • Cousin Bette · Naxos and Blackstone Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781799955788
  • Cousin Bette · Digireads.com Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781420968651
  • Cousin Bette · Mint Editions - CoreSource Plus · 2020 · ISBN 9781513273259
  • Cousin Bette · Wilder Publications, Incorporated · 2018 · ISBN 9781515436829
  • Cousin Bette · FORGOTTEN BOOKS · 2018 · ISBN 9781033290767
  • Cousin Bette · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2016 · ISBN 9781533515162
  • Cousin Bette · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2016 · ISBN 9781361629222
  • Cousin Bette · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2016 · ISBN 9781361629246
  • Cousin Bette · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2015 · ISBN 9781345874983
  • Cousin Bette · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2014 · ISBN 9781494950040
  • Cousin Bette · HARDPRESS Limited · 2013 · ISBN 9781313656092
  • Cousin Bette · Digireads.com Publishing · 2012 · ISBN 9781420901511
  • Cousin Bette · Blackstone Audio · 2012 · ISBN 9781470847845
  • Cousin Bette · Digireads.com Publishing · 2012 · ISBN 9781420946253
  • Cousin Bette · Duke Classics · 2012 · ISBN 9781620122990
  • Cousin Bette · Simon & Schuster · 2012 · ISBN 9781625580085
  • Cousin Bette... · Nabu Press · 2011 · ISBN 9781247828985
  • Cousin Bette... · Nabu Press · 2011 · ISBN 9781271378579
  • Cousin Bette · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 2011 · ISBN 9781411458642
  • Cousin Bette · Forgotten Books · 2010 · ISBN 9781440050046
  • Cousin Bette · Lits · 2010 · ISBN 9781609420260
  • Cousin Bette · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781146339445
  • Cousin Bette · General Books LLC · 2009 · ISBN 9781459074361
  • Cousin Bette (1888) · General Books. · 2009 · ISBN 9781104113162
  • Cousin Bette (1888) · Kessinger Publishing · 2009 · ISBN 9781104172039
  • Cousin Bette · Penguin Books · 2009 · ISBN 9780307291691
  • Cousin Bette · IAP · 2009 · ISBN 9788562022777
  • Cousin Bette · Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 2009 · ISBN 9780786154944
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press · 2008 · ISBN 9780199553945
  • Cousin Bette · Wilder Publications, LLC · 2008 · ISBN 9781604592719
  • Cousin Bette · Blackstone Audio Inc. · 2007 · ISBN 9780786159130
  • Cousin Bette · Blackstone Audio Inc. · 2007 · ISBN 9780786159147
  • Cousin Bette · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2004 · ISBN 9781594561979
  • Cousin Bette · Modern Library · 2002 · ISBN 9780375759079
  • Cousin Bette · Blue Unicorn Edition, LLC · 2000 · ISBN 9781583963739
  • Cousin Bette · Penguin Audio · 1998 · ISBN 9780140866995
  • Cousin Bette · Penguin Publishing Group · 1998 · ISBN 9780147712738
  • Cousin Bette · Knopf · 1998 · ISBN 9780375400766
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press, UK · 1998 · ISBN 9780192836687
  • Cousin Bette · Penguin Books, Limited · 1998 · ISBN 9780140266948
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press Academic UK · 1998 · ISBN 9780191605833
  • Cousin Bette · Book of the Month club · 1997 · ISBN 9780965838566
  • Cousin Bette · Oxford University Press · 1992 · ISBN 9780192826060
  • Cousin Bette · David Campbell? · 1991 · ISBN 9781857150155
  • Cousin Bette · P/B · 1965 · ISBN 9789993929475
  • Cousin Bette · The Floating Press · 1846 · ISBN 9781775418528
  • Cousin Bette · The Floating Press · 1846 · ISBN 9781776512553
  • Cousin Bette · ISBN 9781092852814
  • Cousin Bette · ISBN 9781299576575

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