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Love by Stendhal
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's "Love" is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. "Knight" in "Penguin Classics". In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful ...Show more
Scarlet and Black by STENDHAL
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library classics
In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Richard Howard's definitive and bestselling translation of Stendhal's saga of Napoleonic intrigue -- in paperback for the first time.
The Life of Rossini by Stendhal; Richard N. Coe (Translator)
Category: History
Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition". Stendhal was the first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer.Bes ...Show more
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in "Penguin Classics". Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins ...Show more
The Red & the Black by Stendhal
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe. The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces an ...Show more
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