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The Red and the Black
Le rouge et le noir
Stendhal
Realism
1830
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The Red and the Black
Original title: Le rouge et le noir (Français)
Stendhal
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The story
Julien Sorel memorises Latin to rise in Restoration France and discovers that ambition, too, is a form of sincerity.
About the author
Stendhal (1783–1842) anticipated the modern psychological novel with prose that is dry, quick and merciless.
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