Stendhal
Author
Publisher
Vitalia
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence de Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Madame de Rênal s'appuya sur son bras, et avec tant d'abandon que sa joue sentit la chaleur de celle de Julien.
Les nuits de ces deux êtres furent bien différentes. Madame de Rênal était exaltée par les transports de la volupté morale la plus élevée. Une jeune fille coquette qui aime de bonne heure s'accoutume...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The nineteenth century was a time of turmoil and social change, during which the immutable caste system that had defined European society for thousands of years finally began to shift. This transitional period is brought to life in the exhilaratingly ambitious historical novel, The Red and the Black, which follows the life of Julien Sorel, born of a working-class family, who attempts to improve his station in life. Can Sorel overcome the
...Author
Publisher
Austral
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Una de las novelas más importantes y portentosas de la literatura universal.
Escrita en cincuenta y dos días, a una media de veinte páginas diarias, La Cartuja de Parma es una novela excepcional, una novela avanzada a su tiempo, en la que muchos han visto lo que podría ser el testamento espiritual de un autor único, adorado por Calvino y Lampedusa, y en la que aparecen íntimamente imbricados sus anhelos, sus ensueños, la cristalización amorosa,...
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Language
English
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Description
After Napoleon's defeat, the French aristocracy tried to reassert its power in a government known as the Restoration. Venal and corrupt, the Restoration fell in 1830. Later that year, Stendhal published his scathing satire of Restoration society, The Red and the Black . Its title refers to the military and the clergy, the two career paths open to young men of intelligence and ambition but no social standing. Stendha's hero, Julien Sorel, is such a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo, and of his incomparable aunt Gina, her suitor Prime Minister Mosca, and Clelia, a heroine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Éditions Garnier Frères
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
Français
Description
The novel is set mainly in the court of Parma, Italy, in the early 19th century. It follows the fortunes of Fabrice del Dongo, a young aristocrat and ardent admirer of Napoleon. He fights at Waterloo and returns to Parma, where he joins the church for worldly advantage. In the course of the story he kills a rival, fathers a child, and eventually retires to the Carthusian monastery.
Author
Publisher
Leone Editore
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Nel 1555, Gian Pietro Carafa viene eletto papa con il nome di Paolo IV. Ben presto, presso la casa pontificia, giungono molti membri della sua famiglia, certi di avere protezione e favori economici. La situazione sfugge al controllo del papa quando iniziano a verificarsi scandali amorosi e intrecci extraconiugali, che vedono protagonista la duchessa di Paliano e obbligano il povero uomo a cacciar via tutti i parenti.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1830, Scarlet and Black (Le Rouge et Le Noir) tells the story of a provincial young man's attempts to socially rise beyond his modest upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy - yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
In Scarlet and Black, Stendhal paints a sweeping portrait of early nineteenth-century France - its social classes, professions, politics, and manners - in Paris and the...
14) Lucien Leuwen
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
The book describes the career of Lucien, the son of a Parisian banker, in the years following the July Revolution of 1830 that brought Louis Philippe I to the throne. Lucien is expelled from the École Polytechnique after taking part in an anti-government demonstration following the funeral of General Lamarque. After two years of idleness he joins the army, and falls off a horse as his regiment enters the city of Nancy because he is gazing at 'a young...
16) Lamiel
Author
Series
Direction ; 23
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
A costume drama set in the 19th century, it centers on the young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. She eventually marries a bankrupt comte, but falls for a thief who breaks into her bedroom one night.