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Cousin Betty

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a woman who resents her position as a "poor relation." As we follow her schemes to bring ruin upon the more privileged members of her family, we see a society in transition. The stability and idealism of the old order give way to a new bourgeois world in which virtue is strangled in the struggle for power and money. In this novel, Balzac searchingly probes the psychology and motivations of his characters: his work influenced the development of literary realism, as practised by writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Proust, and Henry James. - Summary by Bruce Pirie

Year of Publication: 1897Genres: Literary Fiction

Running Time: 17 hours 08 minutes 10 seconds(38 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Bruce Pirie

#	Chapter Name
	Chapter 1 Bruce Pirie	9:53
	Chapter 2 Bruce Pirie	25:53
	Chapter 3 Bruce Pirie	27:40
	Chapter 4 Bruce Pirie	27:10
	Chapter 5 Bruce Pirie	26:05
	Chapter 6 Bruce Pirie	28:27
	Chapter 7 Bruce Pirie	24:05
	Chapter 8 Bruce Pirie	27:38
	Chapter 9 Bruce Pirie	22:01
	Chapter 10 Bruce Pirie	22:06
	Chapter 11 Bruce Pirie	18:03
	Chapter 12 Bruce Pirie	22:31
	Chapter 13 Bruce Pirie	26:23
	Chapter 14 Bruce Pirie	27:46
	Chapter 15 Bruce Pirie	24:57
	Chapter 16 Bruce Pirie	17:10
	Chapter 17 Bruce Pirie	21:17
	Chapter 18 Bruce Pirie	20:30
	Chapter 19 Bruce Pirie	25:55
	Chapter 20 Bruce Pirie	24:42
	Chapter 21 Bruce Pirie	33:46
	Chapter 22 Bruce Pirie	31:12
	Chapter 23 Bruce Pirie	25:29
	Chapter 24 Bruce Pirie	27:13
	Chapter 25 Bruce Pirie	27:08
	Chapter 26 Bruce Pirie	19:14
	Chapter 27 Bruce Pirie	29:02
	Chapter 28 Bruce Pirie	31:55
	Chapter 29 Bruce Pirie	34:49
	Chapter 30 Bruce Pirie	29:16
	Chapter 31 Bruce Pirie	40:19
	Chapter 32 Bruce Pirie	33:23
	Chapter 33 Bruce Pirie	44:03
	Chapter 34 Bruce Pirie	28:22
	Chapter 35 Bruce Pirie	24:30
	Chapter 36 Bruce Pirie	30:39
	Chapter 37 Bruce Pirie	28:14
	Chapter 38 Bruce Pirie	39:24