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This book has been hailed as the first great 'realist' novel of the ninteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820's, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration.
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Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon’s cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.
Burton Raffel is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chrétien de Troyes’s Arthurian Romances, Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and Balzac’s Père Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies.
Diane Johnson is the author of ten novels—most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce—two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shining. She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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- PublisherWordsworth Editions
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1840221275
- ISBN 13 9781840221275
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages576
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