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4.1 473 ratings. See all formats and editions. Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics. Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins.
It tells the story of the life and loves of a young man, Julien Sorel. Through his love affairs with the aristocratic and beautiful Madame de Renal, and the passionate Mathilde, Sorel tries - and fails - to gain wealth and social standing, with fatal results. Recommended for older readers. No customer ratings yet Submit a Rating.
After losing his father-in-law's trust and respect, Julien travels back to his hometown of Verrières and shoots Madame de Rênal. She lives, but he's imprisoned and sentenced to death anyway. Julien makes sure to use his last days in the limelight to criticize France and all of its hypocrisy. He is then beheaded and everyone in France goes ...
Norton, 1969 - Fiction - 572 pages. Based on a real crime that Stendhal read about in a French tabloid in 1827, the Red and the Black is a brilliant psychological portrait of passion, opportunism, and political intrigue set in nineteenth-century France. It is the story of Julien Sorel, a young man of humble origins but high aspirations, whose ...
Summary. We have seen that by 1830 Stendhal was already the author of a considerable body of published and unpublished works. Although he was now a skilled writer, his reputation, for the reader of the times, would have been quite modest, at best that of a journalist or polemicist. As a novelist, a few knew of him as the anonymous author of the ...
The conflict of the novel is a clash of personality and society. The main character – the son of a blacksmith, Julien Sorel, wants to get to the top of society and face a choice: to remain a romantic, honest, but poor person and live his whole life without glory, or to adapt, make friends, use others to make a career at the cost of a ruined ...
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