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Cures for Love by Stendhal
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Stendhal believed love comes in different forms: from passion and lust to vanity, the love of possessive desire. In this collection, he muses on falling in love, how to cope with jealousy, and whether infatuation can ever be overcome. He also provides a selection of maxims which gives advice for lovers. ...Show more
Life of Rossini by Stendhal
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
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
Love by Stendhal
Category: Fiction | 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
Red and Black - A Chronicle Of 1830 by Stendhal; Raymond N. MacKenzie (Translator)
Category: Classic Papercover
A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal's original Fueled with a combustible mix of ambition, naivete, and Napoleonic ideals, Julien Sorel sets his sights on the heights of French society. But fo ...Show more
Red and the Black by Stendhal; Burton Raffel (Translator); Diane Johnson (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel's quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way ...Show more
Red and the Black ??? by STENDHAL
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This edition of "The Red and the Black" is based on Robert M. Adams' highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love and betrayal. An extensively revised backgrounds and contexts section provides geographical and political insights into France at the time and places the novel in t ...Show more
Scarlet and Black by STENDHAL
Category: Classic Fiction | 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.
Scarlet and Black - A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century by Stendhal
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy-who ultimately allows his passi ...Show more
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library
Richard Howard's definitive and bestselling translation of Stendhal's saga of Napoleonic intrigue -- in paperback for the first time.
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal; C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Charterhouse of Parmaby Stendhal The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice's early years are spent in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a fict ...Show more