# Poor Relations Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Marriage, Ellen, 1865-1946 [Translator]; Waring, James [Translator] Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12900 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poor+Relations+Balzac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary _La Cousine Bette_ was perhaps the last really great thing that Balzac did--for _Le Cousin Pons_, which now follows it, was actually written before--and it is beyond all question one of the very greatest of his works. It was written at the highest possible pressure, and (contrary to the author's more usual system) in parts, without even seeing a proof, for the _Constitutionnel_ in the autumn, winter, and early spring of 1846-47, before his departure from Vierzschovnia, the object being to secure a certain sum of ready money to clear off indebtedness. And it has been sometimes asserted that this labor, coming on the top of many years of scarcely less hard works, was almost the last straw w... ## Chapters - [Chapter 56](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/56/index.md) - [Chapter 50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/50/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 55](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/55/index.md) - [Chapter 54](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/54/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 59](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/59/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 58](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/58/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 53](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/53/index.md) - [Chapter 57](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/57/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 60](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/60/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 62](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/62/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/51/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 61](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/61/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 47](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/47/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 63](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/63/index.md) - [Chapter 49](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/49/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 52](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/52/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/48/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 64](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poor-relations-12900/chapters/64/index.md)