and Creating the Whole of La Comédie humaine. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 2003. . Maurois, André. Prometheus: The Life of Balzac. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1965. . McGuire, James R. "The Feminine Conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette". Honoré de Balzac. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2003. . pp. 173–182. Mishra, Girish. Balzac: Mirror of Emerging Modern Capitalism. Delhi: Pragati Publications, 1999. . Oliver, E. J. Balzac the European. London: Sheed and Ward, 1959. . Prendergast, C. A. "Antithesis and Moral Ambiguity in La Cousine Bette". The Modern Language Review 68.2 (April 1973): 315–332. Pritchett, V. S. Balzac. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1973. . Pugh, Anthony R. Balzac's Recurring Characters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. . Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. . Rogers, Samuel. Balzac & The Novel. New York: Octagon Books, 1953. . Saintsbury, George. "Introduction". The Works of Honoré de Balzac. Vol XI. Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons. Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company, 1901. . pp. ix–xiii. Stowe, William W. Balzac, James, and the Realistic Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. . Further reading Dargan, E. Preston and Bernard Weinberg. The Evolution of Balzac's Comédie humaine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1942. . Kanes, Martin. Balzac's Comedy of Words. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. . Marceau, Felicien. Balzac and His World. Trans. Derek Coltman. New York: The Orion Press, 1966. . Pasco, Allan H. Balzacian Montage: Configuring La Comédie humaine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. . External links La Cousine Bette at Internet Archive (scanned books, color illustrated, misc translations and French first edition) (plain text and HTML). Trans. by James Warring (1897). 1846 French novels Books of La Comédie humaine Novels by Honoré de Balzac Works originally published in Le Constitutionnel Novels set in Paris Novels first published in serial form French-language novels French novels adapted into plays French novels adapted into films