Bette, an excruciatingly cunning, poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family

La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who pl

Agreeing to share her life with Professor van der Brink-Shaaksma had seemed a good idea to Beatrice at the time. But while fine in theory, the "no strings attac