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The red and the black : a chronicle of the nineteenth century / Stendhal ; translated by Catherine Slater ; with an introduction by Roger Pearson.

By: Stendhal, 1783-1842.
Contributor(s): Slater, Catherine | Pearson, Roger.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: World's classics.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1991 1992 printingDescription: xxix, 559 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 0192817159.Subject(s): Young men -- FictionDDC classification: 843.7 STE
Contents:
The Red and the Black -- Book One -- A small town -- A mayor -- Care of the poor -- Father and son -- Striking a bargain -- Boredom -- Elective affinities -- Minor events -- An evening in the country -- A generous heart and a meagre fortune -- In the evening -- A journey -- Openwork stockings -- A pair of English scissors -- The crowing of the cock -- The day after -- First deputy -- A king in Verrieres -- Thinking brings suffering -- Anonymous letters -- Dialogue with a master -- Modes of behaviour in 1830 -- The woes of high office -- A capital city -- The seminary -- The world -- First experience of life -- A procession -- First promotion -- A man of ambition -- Book Two -- Pleasures of the countryside -- Entry into society -- The first steps -- The Hotel de la Mole -- Sensitivity and a great lady's piety -- A matter of accent -- An attack of gout -- What decoration distinguishes a man? -- The ball -- Queen Marguerite -- The power of a young lady -- Might he be a Danton? -- A plot -- A young lady's thoughts -- Is it a plot? -- One o'clock in the morning -- An old sword -- Cruel moments -- The Opera Bouffe -- The Japanese vase -- The secret memorandum -- The discussion -- The clergy, forests and freedom -- Strasburg -- The Ministry of Virtue -- Propriety in love -- The best positions in the Church -- Manon Lescaut -- Boredom -- A box at the Opera Bouffe -- Frightening her -- The tiger -- The infernal torment of weakness -- A man of intelligence -- A storm -- Sorry details -- A keep -- A powerful man -- Politicking -- Tranquility -- The trial.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 843.7 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00014412
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, thwarted when he is forced to accept employment as a tutor--and this rash social entrepreneur certainly has not considered the dangers of falling in love. Stendhal's novel is an amusing and piquant study of hypocrisy and free will in post-Napoleonic France.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi).

The Red and the Black -- Book One -- A small town -- A mayor -- Care of the poor -- Father and son -- Striking a bargain -- Boredom -- Elective affinities -- Minor events -- An evening in the country -- A generous heart and a meagre fortune -- In the evening -- A journey -- Openwork stockings -- A pair of English scissors -- The crowing of the cock -- The day after -- First deputy -- A king in Verrieres -- Thinking brings suffering -- Anonymous letters -- Dialogue with a master -- Modes of behaviour in 1830 -- The woes of high office -- A capital city -- The seminary -- The world -- First experience of life -- A procession -- First promotion -- A man of ambition -- Book Two -- Pleasures of the countryside -- Entry into society -- The first steps -- The Hotel de la Mole -- Sensitivity and a great lady's piety -- A matter of accent -- An attack of gout -- What decoration distinguishes a man? -- The ball -- Queen Marguerite -- The power of a young lady -- Might he be a Danton? -- A plot -- A young lady's thoughts -- Is it a plot? -- One o'clock in the morning -- An old sword -- Cruel moments -- The Opera Bouffe -- The Japanese vase -- The secret memorandum -- The discussion -- The clergy, forests and freedom -- Strasburg -- The Ministry of Virtue -- Propriety in love -- The best positions in the Church -- Manon Lescaut -- Boredom -- A box at the Opera Bouffe -- Frightening her -- The tiger -- The infernal torment of weakness -- A man of intelligence -- A storm -- Sorry details -- A keep -- A powerful man -- Politicking -- Tranquility -- The trial.

Translation of Le rouge et le noir.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

One of the great French novelists of the nineteenth century, Stendhal (pseudonym for Marie-Henri Beyle) describes his unhappy youth with sensitivity and intelligence in his autobiographical novel The Life of Henri Brulard. It was written in 1835 and 1836 but published in 1890, long after his death. He detested his father, a lawyer from Grenoble, France, whose only passion in life was making money. Therefore, Stendhal left home as soon as he could.

Stendhal served with Napoleon's army in the campaign in Russia in 1812, which helped inspire the famous war scenes in his novel The Red and the Black (1831). After Napoleon's fall, Stendhal lived for six years in Italy, a country he loved during his entire life. In 1821, he returned to Paris for a life of literature, politics, and love affairs.

Stendhal's novels feature heroes who reject any form of authority that would restrain their sense of individual freedom. They are an interesting blend of romantic emotionalism and eighteenth-century realism. Stendhal's heroes are sensitive, emotional individuals who are in conflict with the society in which they live, yet they have the intelligence and detachment to analyze their society and its faults.

Stendhal was a precursor of the realism of Flaubert. He once described the novelist's function as that of a person carrying a mirror down a highway so that the mirror would reflect life as it was, for all society.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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