Stendhal
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Description
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...
Author
Series
Description
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Series
Everyman's Library volume 38
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Garnier
Pub. Date
[1961]
Description
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...
7) On love
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[1947]
Description
On Love, philosophical discourse by Stendhal, published in 1822 as De l'amour. The work was prompted by Stendhal's hopeless love for Métilde Dembowski. The first part of On Love is an analysis of love, in which Stendhal lists four kinds of love: physical love, purely sexual in scope; love as a social game, removed from passion; vanity love, a type necessary for high social standing; and passion, the finest form of love, which the author idealized...
Author
Description
Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic--gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from "Don Quivote" to "Book of numbers"; from "Wuthering Heights"...