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The Red and the Black(Updated)
A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics)
von Catherine Slater, Roger Pearson, Catherine Slater Stendhal
Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283871-1, ISBN: 0-19-283871-7

"In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled `A Chronicle of 1830', Stendhal's depiction of a nation of smug hypocrites scandalized contemporary readers, who recognized themselves or their peers and ..."