American Civil Rights: Almanac

by Phillis Engelbert

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honor? de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics. Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787631744
• ISBN13: 9780787631741
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: UXL
• Length: 2 Pages