Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140440305
ISBN 13
9780140440300
Category
Classical Novels
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Publication Year
1953
Publisher
Pages
512
Description
It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprising crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
