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Promenader i Rom  av Stendhal (1783-1842), för första gången i svensk översättning.   Promenader i Rom  är Stendhals litterära skildring av sina upplevelser och observationer under en två år lång vistelse i Rom. Läsaren bjuds med på...

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Den odödliga berättelsen om Julien Sorels uppgång och fall Den unge landsortspojken Julien Sorel studerar vid prästseminariet och kommer som informator till borgmästarfamiljen de Rênal i Verrières. Han drivs av ärelystnad och ett hat mot överklass...

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Nyutgåva av Stendhals klassiska roman. Kartusianklostret i Parma är en av de första moderna romanerna. Författaren skildrar sina gestalter i full storlek utan att anpassa dem efter den goda smakens eller moralens diktat. Läsaren får följa den vack...

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A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics. In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendh...

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Headstrong and nave, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for ...

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A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhals original Fueled with a combustible mix of ambition, naivete, and Napoleonic ideals, Julien Sorel sets...

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In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than...

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STENDHAL [1783-1842] är mästaren från Grenoble, en av de främsta romanförfattarna genom tiderna. Hans största titlar är Rött och svart, Kartusianklostret i Parma [1839] och Om kärleken [1822]. Rött och svart är en historisk och psykologisk roman f...

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A contemporary collection of stories by one of France's finest writers.Revered by key literary figures including as Balzac and Merimee, Stendhal is best known for his novels, but his shorter works were just as powerful. In this brand new translati...

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A contemporary collection of stories by one of France's finest writers. Revered by key literary figures including as Balzac and Merimee, Stendhal is best known for his novels, but his shorter works were just as powerful. In this brand new translat...

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Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics. Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel...

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In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the writte...

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Headstrong and na ve, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for...

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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 northe...

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The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo...

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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 dis...

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An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, polit...

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Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.

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Political Intrigue is always a fascinating subject for fiction. In the hands of a great master like Stendhal it can become utterly absorbing. And so it is in this novel, where we follow the adventures of young Lucien Leuwen, private secretary to t...

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Among the tantalizingly unfinished works of the great French writer Stendhal (1783-1842) are the opening chapters of The Pink & the Green (Le Rose et le Vert), which tell of the obsessions of Mina Wanghen, a young, intelligent Prussian heiress...

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Italian passionthe passion that seeks its own satisfaction, and not to give ones neighbor an enhanced idea of oneselfis the life-blood of Stendhals Three Italian Chronicles. Gathered here are three long-out-of-print stories animated by life-and-de...

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Attractive, clever, a cavalry officer and very rich, young Leuwen had everything necessary for happiness and success--everything except belief in himself and the social order of his time. It is the period of King Louis-Philippe, when an induced co...

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A Major New Translation <BR>The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing...

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A brilliant portrait of one of the most ruthlessly charming heroes in literature, The Red and the Black chronicles the rise and fall of Julian Sorel. Born into the peasantry, Sorel connives his way into the highest Parisian aristocratic circles. B...

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The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book ...

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This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on French Classics in French and English p...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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