Stendhal
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After Napoleon's defeat, the French aristocracy tried to reassert its power in a government known as the Restoration. Venal and corrupt, the Restoration fell in 1830. Later that year, Stendhal published his scathing satire of Restoration society, The Red and the Black . Its title refers to the military and the clergy, the two career paths open to young men of intelligence and ambition but no social standing. Stendha's hero, Julien Sorel, is such a...
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Written in just fifty-two days in the year 1839, "The Charterhouse of Parma" has since become known as Stendhal's finest work. Evidence of haste is infrequently apparent in this remarkable story, which follows the eventful life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo. From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully naïve. Upon returning injured...
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The nineteenth century was a time of turmoil and social change, during which the immutable caste system that had defined European society for thousands of years finally began to shift. This transitional period is brought to life in the exhilaratingly ambitious historical novel, The Red and the Black, which follows the life of Julien Sorel, born of a working-class family, who attempts to improve his station in life. Can Sorel overcome the
...4) Rojo y negro
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Considerada la obra maestra absoluta de Stendahl, Rojo y negro narra las dificultades de un joven francés para salir de la pobreza a la que ha sido condenado desde su nacimiento, a finales de la segunda década del siglo XIX. La historia supone una de las piedras angulares del movimiento realista en literatura, y hace gala de un profundo análisis de la psicología de su personaje principal, elementos que la han convertido en una de las principales...
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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Una hermosa mañana del mes de mayo de 182... entraba don Blas Bustos y Mosquera, escoltado por doce hombres a caballo, en el pueblo de Alcolote, a una legua de Granada. Cuando lo veían llegar, los vecinos entraban precipitadamente en las casas y cerraban las puertas a aquel terrible jefe de la policía de Granada. El cielo ha castigado su crueldad poniéndole en la cara la impronta de su alma. Es un hombre de seis pies de estatura, cetrino, de una...
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Garnier
Pub. Date
[1961]
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Français
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La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman historique écrit par Stendhal en 1839. Il raconte l'histoire de Fabrice del Dongo, un jeune noble italien qui vit pendant les révolutions napoléoniennes. Il est déterminé à faire carrière dans l'armée et à vivre des aventures passionnantes, mais il est confronté à des obstacles tels que la politique, la guerre et l'amour. Il éprouve des sentiments passionnés pour Clélia Conti, une jeune femme belle...
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Horizon Press
Pub. Date
1975.
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English
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This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the Shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic...
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Everyman's library ; 38
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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Published in 1830, Scarlet and Black (Le Rouge et Le Noir) tells the story of a provincial young man's attempts to socially rise beyond his modest upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy - yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
In Scarlet and Black, Stendhal paints a sweeping portrait of early nineteenth-century France - its social classes, professions, politics, and manners - in Paris and the...
