Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle by Stendhal
"Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle" by Stendhal is a novel published in 1830. It follows Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man from provincial France who dreams of becoming a new Napoleon. Through his positions as tutor and secretary, he enters bourgeois and aristocratic society, where he becomes entangled in passionate affairs with two women: Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de La Mole. His rise from carpenter's son to
nobleman tests the boundaries between ambition, hypocrisy, and authentic feeling in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Stendhal, 1783-1842 |
|---|---|
| Title | Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Rouge_et_le_Noir |
| Credits |
Produced by Tokuya Matsumoto <toqyam@os.rim.or.jp> HTML version produced by Chuck Greif |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Young men -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Ambition -- Fiction |
| Subject | Church and state -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 798 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 1997 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 8, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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