Authors: Stendhal, Horace B. Samuel
ISBN-13: 9780486437903, ISBN-10: 0486437906
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: Unabridged Edition
Stendhal, born Henri Marie Beyle (1783-1842), had a post in the Ministry of War and followed Napoleon's campaigns before retiring to Italy. As "Stendhal," he began writing on art, music, and travel. He later wrote novels, literary criticism, and various biographical and autobiographical works.
Roger Gard was a reader in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College. He died in 2000.
The classic, elegant translation of Stendhal's masterful novel of ambition, desire, and politics in post-Napoleonic France.
Chronology of the Life of Henri Marie Beyle | vii | |
Introduction | xi | |
Selected Further Reading | xxvi | |
Notes on the Text and Translation | xxvii | |
The Red and The Black | 1 | |
Appendix A | Stendhal's Epigraphs and Quotations | 533 |
Appendix B | French Currency and Distances in the 1820s | 534 |
Notes | 537 |