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Stendhal

Short biography: Stendhal in Great Lives

About Stendhal

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842) was a French novelist, critic and diplomat who served in Napoleon's armies.

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The Red and the Black

1830 · 19th Century · Novel

The Red and the Black, subtitled A Chronicle of 1830, is Stendhal's great novel of ambition in France after the fall of Napoleon. This text is the 1916 English translation by Horace B. Samuel, with his introduction.