title: The Red and the Black
author: Marie Henri and Translated By C.K. Scott Moncrieff Stendhal Beyle
description: Case has scratch on spine. Book is nearly perfect. Has nameplate label on end paper.
zlib_text: STENDHAL (1783–1842), the pen name of Henri Marie Beyle, was born into a
  prosperous family in Grenoble. At sixteen he set out for Paris, intending to
  pursue a career as an engineer, but instead enlisted in Napoleon’s Army.
  Stendhal took part in campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria, and
  then, after Napoleon’s fall from power, settled in Milan, where he wrote books
  on art and music. Expelled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, he
  returned to Paris; following the 1830 revolution, he secured the position,
  which he was to hold for the rest of his life, of French Consul to
  Civitavecchia. Stendhal’s great novels _The Red and the Black_ (1830) and _The
  Charterhouse of Parma_ (1839) were largely ignored during his lifetime, and
  many of his works remained unfinished and were published only posthumously.
  Among his most important books are _On Love_ , _Lucien Leuwen_ , _The Memoirs
  of an Egotist_ , and _The Life of Henry Brulard_.
  
  
  
  
  
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