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Stendhal

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Stendhal (1783–1842), the pen name of Henri Marie Beyle, was born into a prosperous family in Grenoble. At sixteen he set out for Paris, intending to pursue a career as an engineer, but instead enlisted in Napoleon’s Army. Stendhal took part in campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria, and then, after Napoleon’s fall from power, settled in Milan,where he wrote books on art and music. Expelled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, he returned to Paris; following the 1830 revolution, he secured the position, which he was to hold for the rest of his life, of French Consul to Civitavecchia. Stendhal’s great novels The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and many of his works remained unfinished and were published only posthumously. Among his most important books are On Love, Lucien Leuwen, The Memoirs of an Egotist, and The Life of Henry Brulard.

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De l'Amour book cover

De l'Amour

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De l'Amour book cover

De l'Amour

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The Red and the Black - Unabridged book cover

The Red and the Black - Unabridged

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The Charterhouse of Parma - I book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma - I

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The Red and the Black book cover

The Red and the Black

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume I

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The Charterhouse of Parma book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma

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The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma Volume II

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Memoirs of an Egotist book cover

Memoirs of an Egotist

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The Charterhouse of Parma book cover

The Charterhouse of Parma

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The Red and the Black (translated with an introduction by Horace B. Samuel) book cover

The Red and the Black (translated with an introduction by Horace B. Samuel)

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Roman Journal book cover

Roman Journal

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Le Rouge et le Noir book cover

Le Rouge et le Noir

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Les Cenci book cover

Les Cenci

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La Chartreuse de Parme book cover

La Chartreuse de Parme

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L'Abbesse De Castro book cover

L'Abbesse De Castro

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