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Stendhal


Born
in Grenoble, France
January 23, 1783

Died
March 23, 1842

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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). ...more

Average rating: 3.82 · 115,698 ratings · 6,131 reviews · 2,004 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Red and the Black

3.86 avg rating — 83,482 ratings — published 1830 — 2075 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma

3.79 avg rating — 19,989 ratings — published 1839 — 14 editions
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Love

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3.61 avg rating — 2,069 ratings — published 1822 — 67 editions
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Roșu și negru #1

3.95 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 1830 — 52 editions
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Armance

3.37 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 1827 — 386 editions
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Lucien Leuwen

3.83 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1894 — 90 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes

3.62 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1839 — 8 editions
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Vanina Vanini

3.24 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 1829 — 84 editions
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La badessa di Castro

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3.27 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 1832 — 26 editions
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Roșu și negru #2

3.95 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 1830 — 51 editions
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
Stendhal, Love

Polls

August 2016 Old School Classic Poll

-800, The Odyssey by Homer, 560 pages
 
  43 votes, 23.0%

1857, The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, 269 pages
 
  41 votes, 21.9%

1320, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages
 
  25 votes, 13.4%

1883, Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 384 pages
 
  16 votes, 8.6%

1860, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 579 pages
 
  16 votes, 8.6%

1830, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages
 
  15 votes, 8.0%

 
  13 votes, 7.0%

 
  13 votes, 7.0%

1859, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.7%

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