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Cures for Love by Stendhal
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Stendhal believed love comes in different forms: from passion and lust to vanity, the love of possessive desire. In this collection, he muses on falling in love, how to cope with jealousy, and whether infatuation can ever be overcome. He also provides a selection of maxims which gives advice for lovers. ...Show more
Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
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Category: Classics
Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters' psychology. This translation of Stendhal's Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales wri ...Show more
Life of Rossini by Stendhal
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition". Stendhal was the first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer.Bes ...Show more
The Charterhouse of Parma by STENDHAL
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the exci ...Show more
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins ...Show more
Travels in the South of France by Stendhal
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Category: Travel
Published posthumously in 1830, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings.
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