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The Red and the Black
Series: Modern Library Classics
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The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fuelled 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, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of post-Napoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-colour life.
His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780812972078
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 May 2004
Country: United States
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Contributors:
- Introduction by Diane Johnson
- Introduction by Diane Johnson
- Translated by Burton Raffel
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 560
About the Author
STENDHAL(Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842. BURTON RAFFEL is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, Cervantes's Don Quijote, and Balzac's P re Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies. DIANE JOHNSON Is the author of ten novels-most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce-two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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