The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a refugee and in desperate need of money. His most abiding passion in life was music, so why not write about it?...

Published posthumously in 1930, 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....

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon’s armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death....

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before The Charterhouse of Parma, it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and established him at the forefront of the French Romantic movement....

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....

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine and other English reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a single volume, the only edition available in English....

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel's life in a monarchic society of fixed social class....

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Headstrong and naive, 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 war and glory....

Jeune provincial devore d\"ambition, Julien Sorel n\"a de cesse de s\"elever au-dessus de sa condition mediocre. Plutot que dans l\"Eglise, il choisit de faire carriere dans le monde. De la Franche-Comte a Paris, son energique obstination ne s\"embarrasse pas de scrupules....

Rien n\"est plus etranger au personnage de Julien Sorel que la serenite des vainqueurs. Alors que Napoleon, son modele, est a jamais defait, Sorel est condamne a grandir dans une famille mesquine, a vivre dans une province trop etroite....

Roman de la jeunesse et du desir, roman d\"amour ou d\"ambition sociale, Le Rouge et le Noir propose, sur un rythme soutenu et allegre, un recit etonnamment moderne....

Rien n\"est plus etranger au personnage de Julien Sorel que la serenite des vainqueurs. Alors que Napoleon, son modele, est a jamais defait, Sorel est condamne a grandir dans une famille mesquine, a vivre dans une province trop etroite....

Elisabeth Edls vielgefeierte Neuubersetzung des grosen Klassikers endlich im Taschenbuch. Der soziale Aufstieg und Fall des begabten, ehrgeizigen Bauernsohns Julien Sorel ist das Thema dieses Romans. Zwei Frauen ebnen dem aufstrebenden Jungling den Weg in das Gro?burgertum. Doch am Ende steht sein Verderben....