Red and the Black

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Literary Fiction

Authors: Stendhal In Year : 1916

Book Language: English

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Introduction
Chapter 1: A Small Town
Chapter 2: A Mayor
Chapter 3: The Poor Fund
Chapter 4: A Father and Son
Chapter 5: A Negotiation
Chapter 6: Ennui
Chapter 7: The Elective Affinities
Chapter 8: The Little Episodes
Chapter 9: An Evening in the Country
Chapter 10: A Great Heart and a Small Fortune
Chapter 11: An Evening
Chapter 12: A Journey
Chapter 13: The Open-work Stockings
Chapter 14: The English Scissors
Chapter 15: The Cock's Song
Chapter 16: The Day After
Chapter 17: The First Deputy
Chapter 18: A King at Verrières
Chapter 19: Thinking Produces Suffering
Chapter 20: Anonymous Letters
Chapter 21: Dialogue with a Master
Chapter 22: Manners of Procedure in 1830
Chapter 23: Sorrows of an Official
Chapter 24: A Capital
Chapter 25: The Seminary
Chapter 26: The World, or What the Rich Lack
Chapter 27: First Experience of Life
Chapter 28: A Procession
Chapter 29: The First Promotion
Chapter 30: An Ambitious Man
Chapter 31: The Pleasures of the Country
Chapter 32: Entry Into Society
Chapter 33: The First Steps
Chapter 34: The Hôtel de la Mole
Chapter 35: Sensibility and a Great Pious Lady
Chapter 36: Pronunciation
Chapter 37: An Attack of Gout
Chapter 38: What is the Decoration Which Confers Distinction?
Chapter 39: The Ball
Chapter 40: Queen Marguerite
Chapter 41: A Young Girl's Dominion
Chapter 42: Is He a Danton?
Chapter 43: A Plot
Chapter 44: A Young Girl's Thoughts
Chapter 45: Is it a Plot?
Chapter 46: One O'Clock in the Morning
Chapter 47: An Old Sword
Chapter 48: Cruel Moments
Chapter 49: The Opera Bouffe
Chapter 50: The Japanese Vase
Chapter 51: The Secret Note
Chapter 52: The Discussion
Chapter 53: The Clergy, The Forests, Liberty
Chapter 54: Strasbourg
Chapter 55: The Ministry of Virtue
Chapter 56: Moral Love
Chapter 57: The Finest Places in the Church
Chapter 58: Manon Lescaut
Chapter 59: Ennui
Chapter 60: A Box at the Bouffes
Chapter 61: Frighten Her
Chapter 62: The Tiger
Chapter 63: The Hell of Weakness
Chapter 64: A Man of Intellect
Chapter 65: A Storm
Chapter 66: Sad Details
Chapter 67: A Turret
Chapter 68: A Powerful Man
Chapter 69: The Intrigue
Chapter 70: Tranquility
Chapter 71: The Trial
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75

It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son turned priest who secretly models his behaviour after the heroics of Napoleon, in an era when the great man had only recently died at St Helena, and French society has grown stultified (for all its still vivid memories of the Jacobins' excesses and fear these may be revived). With remarkable skill, Stendhal manages as once to hold Julian's character up to excoriating examination while leaving us with some measure of sympathy for his young hero as he romantically pursues, first, the wife of his local mayor, then the haughty young daughter of a nobleman who has employed him as a personal secretary. Combining penetrating psychological insights with scathing social satire, The Red and the Black is rightly regarded as one of the great classics of French literature. (Summary by Peter Dann)