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Cousin Betty
Balzac’s social novel examines jealousy, desire, vanity, and manipulation as a poor relative plots for security while navigating the corrupt ambitions of Parisian society
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Classics & Literature
Father Goriot
Balzac’s Paris novel connects family ambition to money, status and social mobility, showing how private relationships are altered by a competitive social world
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