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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 · 113,724 ratings · 5,947 reviews · 1,937 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Red and the Black

3.86 avg rating — 82,065 ratings — published 1830 — 49 editions
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The Charterhouse of Parma

3.79 avg rating — 19,716 ratings — published 1839 — 1368 editions
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Love

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3.61 avg rating — 2,031 ratings — published 1822 — 77 editions
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Roșu și negru #1

3.94 avg rating — 960 ratings — published 1830 — 14 editions
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Armance

3.38 avg rating — 1,072 ratings — published 1827 — 5 editions
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Lucien Leuwen

3.83 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1894 — 9 editions
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Chroniques Italiennes

3.63 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 1839 — 124 editions
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Vanina Vanini

3.24 avg rating — 631 ratings — published 1829 — 10 editions
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Roșu și negru #2

3.95 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1830 — 52 editions
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The Abbess of Castro (The A...

3.28 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1832 — 23 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

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July 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our July Old School Classics group read?

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages
 
  20 votes, 46.5%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  9 votes, 20.9%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages
 
  4 votes, 9.3%

 
  4 votes, 9.3%

1678, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 324 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1797, The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, 423 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1849, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, 624 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1839, The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, 532 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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