Stendhal Books In Order

Novels

  1. Armance (1827)
  2. The Red and the Black (1830)
  3. The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)

Omnibus

  1. Stendhal: The Complete Novels (2016)

Novellas

  1. Vanina Vanini (1829)
  2. The Abbess of Castro (1832)
  3. The Cenci (1837)
  4. Vittoria Accoramboni (1837)
  5. The Duchess of Palliano (1838)

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Stendhal Books Overview

The Red and the Black

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: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. After Napoleon’s defeat, the French aristocracy tried to reassert its power in a government known as the Restoration. Venal and corrupt, the Restoration fell in 1830. Later that year, Stendhal published his scathing satire of Restoration society, The Red and the Black. Its title refers to the military and the clergy, the two career paths open to young men of intelligence and ambition but no social standing. Stendhal s hero, Julien Sorel, is such a young man. A seminary student, he is nevertheless an admirer of Napoleon, and dreams of military glory. When he is hired to tutor the mayor s children, he quickly seduces the mayor s wife, then moves on to Paris where he conquers a nobleman s daughter. Sorel comes to believe that the secret of success is to outperform the hypocrites and vicious opportunists who surround him and he s right. But when the rich and powerful he so admires align against him, his downfall becomes unavoidable. A master of characterization, Stendhal paints a fascinating, multi layered portrait of Julien Sorel, who endures as one of literature s most complex and surprisingly sympathetic a would be manipulator out of his depth in a sea of sharks. Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, The Servant s Hand: English Fiction from Below, and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture.

The Charterhouse of Parma

Balzac considered it the most important French novel of his time. Andr Gide later deemed it the greatest of all French novels, and Henry James judged it to be a masterpiece. Now, in a major literary event, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and distinguished translator Richard Howard presents a new rendition of Stendhal’s epic tale of romance, adventure, and court intrigue set in early nineteenth century Italy. The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon’s army just before the Battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel’s most unforgettable characters are the hero’s beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio’s political career at the treacherous court of Parma in a sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European history. ‘Stendhal has written The Prince up to date, the novel that Machiavelli would write if he were living banished from Italy in the nineteenth century,’ noted Balzac in his famous review of The Charterhouse of Parma. ‘Never before have the hearts of princes, ministers, courtiers, and women been depicted like this…
. One sees perfection in every detail…
. It has the magnitude of a canvas fifty feet by thirty, and at the same time the manner, the execution, is Dutch in its minuteness…
. The Charterhouse of Parma often contains a whole book in a single page…
. It is a masterpiece.’ This edition includes original illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker and Notes and a Translator’s Afterword by Richard Howard.

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