Published by The Modern Library, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679602453 ISBN 13: 9780679602453
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Parker, Robert A. (illustrator). 2nd Printing. 1999 2nd printing, no Toledano number, $24.95 jacket price, brown decorative endpapers with an updated rendering of Modern Library's iconic torchbearer. Spine base lightly stained, board edges a bit faded. xiv, 507 pp. A new translation by Richard Howard. Illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Balzac considered it the most important French novel of his time. André 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.